District	Fiscal Year	U.S. Courts*			Dept. of Justice**
		Magistrate Court	District Court	Total	Magistrate Court	District Court	Total
United States	2003	16,231	15,296	31,527	3,052	17,136	20,188
	2004	26,581	15,762	42,343	16,723	16,465	33,188
Southwest Border Federal Judicial Districts
Arizona	2003	2,740	2,503	5,243	178	2,541	2,719
	2004	4,649	2,398	7,047	268	2,085	2,353
Cal, S.	2003	3	1,929	1,932	128	2,488	2,616
	2004	3	2,022	2,025	139	2,585	2,724
N Mexico	2003	37	1,422	1,459	231	1,636	1,867
	2004	3	1,414	1,417	75	1,368	1,443
Texas, S.	2003	8,626	2,886	11,512	454	3,037	3,491
	2004	16,176	3,035	19,211	13,905	3,231	17,136
Texas, W.	2003	4,227	1,755	5,982	1,483	1,768	3,251
	2004	5,261	1,815	7,076	1,829	1,405	3,234

*	Administrative Office of U.S. Court figures are based upon its published counts [see Tables D-9 and M2 at http://www.uscourts.gov/judbus2004/contents.html and http://www.uscourts.gov/judbus2003/contents.html] for defendants charged with offenses under the "immigration laws." Magistrate figures include only petty offenses and exclude Class A misdemeanors as immigration offenses did not comprise a large enough category to be broken out separately. Thus, the AOUSC magistrate figures may represent an slight undercount of the actual volume of immigration defendants handled.
**	Department of Justice (Executive Office for United States Attorney) figures are based upon internal files obtained by TRAC after court litigation under the Freedom of Information Act. Historically, reporting systems for magistrate cases have not been as well maintained, and reporting of petty offenses in particular appear less reliable and complete than court recording systems. This is reflected in the lower reported counts above. Counts here reflect prosecutions completed resulting from DHS-Immigration referrals for criminal prosecution.