Abbott says Texas border safer than before

WESLACO, Texas (AP) — A week after Gov. Rick Perry directed $1.3 million per week toward bolstering border security, Attorney General Greg Abbott said Friday he sees “measurable and meaningful results.”

Abbott, who’s the Republican nominee for governor, said after being briefed by Border Patrol and the Department of Public Safety in Weslaco that there has been no increase in crime and may have actually been a decrease in illegal activity. He credited the amount of law enforcement at all levels working at the border in the face of a surge of illegal immigration.