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Table 1. Immigration Court Filings by State of Court Headquarters City

  New Filings (by NTA date) Percent Rank
  FY2012-FY2016 FY2017 FY2012-FY2016 FY2017 FY2012-FY2016 FY2017
State OBAMA TRUMP OBAMA TRUMP OBAMA TRUMP
All 1,116,370 57,233 11,040 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Texas 270,574 14,024 2,326 24.2% 24.5% 21.1% 1 1 1
California 171,139 7,290 1,967 15.3% 12.7% 17.8% 2 2 2
New York 94,294 6,145 1,036 8.4% 10.7% 9.4% 3 3 3
Florida 80,473 3,275 826 7.2% 5.7% 7.5% 4 5 4
Georgia 50,364 2,784 726 4.5% 4.9% 6.6% 6 6 5
Arizona 62,132 3,502 640 5.6% 6.1% 5.8% 5 4 6
Louisiana 36,389 1,615 543 3.3% 2.8% 4.9% 9 9 7
New Jersey 33,322 1,231 405 3.0% 2.2% 3.7% 10 13 8
Illinois 41,303 2,218 298 3.7% 3.9% 2.7% 7 8 9
Colorado 19,183 1,491 290 1.7% 2.6% 2.6% 16 10 10
Pennsylvania 24,893 1,488 275 2.2% 2.6% 2.5% 12 11 11
Washington 27,189 1,445 267 2.4% 2.5% 2.4% 11 12 12
Missouri 10,979 1,231 243 1.0% 2.2% 2.2% 20 14 13
Virginia 39,862 2,331 208 3.6% 4.1% 1.9% 8 7 14
Minnesota 11,176 860 172 1.0% 1.5% 1.6% 19 17 15
Michigan 10,213 515 153 0.9% 0.9% 1.4% 22 20 16
Nevada 9,375 674 148 0.8% 1.2% 1.3% 23 19 17
Massachusetts 21,078 484 123 1.9% 0.8% 1.1% 14 22 18
Maryland 23,017 839 111 2.1% 1.5% 1.0% 13 18 19
Nebraska 10,583 1,041 80 0.9% 1.8% 0.7% 21 16 20
Ohio 11,743 497 69 1.1% 0.9% 0.6% 18 21 21
Connecticut 5,216 289 44 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 25 23 22
Utah 6,567 263 31 0.6% 0.5% 0.3% 24 25 23
Tennessee 16,731 1,192 19 1.5% 2.1% 0.2% 17 15 24
Hawaii 1,070 80 15 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 28 27 25
Oregon 5,069 289 10 0.5% 0.5% 0.1% 26 24 26
Puerto Rico 1,922 23 6 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 27 29 27
Guam 276 28 5 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 29 28 28
North Carolina 20,004 89 2 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 15 26 29
Northern Mariana Isl 234 0 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 30 30 30