1. 1 The percentage of immigrants in the population was still slightly higher in the first decade of the twentieth century- fifteen percent then, compared with today's 11.1 percent. See, e.g., Julia Malone, Tide of Immigration Surges in America, THE ATLANTA J. & CONST., June 5, 2002, at 1A.
2. 2 In comparison, drug offenders charged in federal court increased from about 20,000 to not quite 30,000- a 50 percent increase. All data are drawn from Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Criminal Case Processing, 2000(Nov. 2001).
3. 3 173 F.3d 741 (9th Cir.1999). FSR printed the original panel decision in Banuelos-Rodriguez at 11 FED.SENT. REP. 289 (1999), and the later en banc opinion overturning the panel decision at 12 FED. SENT. REP. 277 (1999). See also
4. Dan Freed & Nora Demleitner, Varieties of Disparity: Sources and Responses, 12 FED. SENT. REP. 127 (1999);
5. Lewis J. Liman, Should Interdistrict Disparity be a Permissible Basis for Departure? 12 FED. SENT. REP. 154 (1999).