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AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott told Breitbart Texas that the apprehension of migrants in the five Texas-based border sectors has dropped by 85 percent since he launched the Operation Lone Star border security mission in March 2021.
As of the end of Fiscal Year 2024, which ended on September 30, just under 500,000 migrants were apprehended who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry in the five. One year earlier, that number came in at just over one million migrants, Breitbart Texas reported. The net result was a single-year decrease of 54 percent. In FY22, more than 1.
. This led to over 45,000 criminal arrests, including more than 39,000 felony charges. The efforts also led to the seizure of more than 505 million lethal doses of fentanyl. “So I’ve talked to President Trump about what his policies will be when he is elected, and he knows far more now about how to secure the border than when he was first elected as President of the United States,” Abbott responded. “He will be far more aggressive and far more effective at securing the border in the second term than he was in his first term.”
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