The article looks at the developments on the pretrial services in Arizona. Since the increase of U.S. Border Patrol enforcement along the border with Mexico, pretrial activations grew by 195 percent from 7,424 in 2008 to 21,879 as of 2011. The pretrial services involved flip flops, referring to prosecutions on defendants for committing felony and misdemeanor, though are also applied in crimes like illegal drug possession, illegal reentry, and identity theft.