AUSTIN, Texas — Claims by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) that Texas’s border security initiative has led to a decrease in illegal immigrants is backed up by the federal government’s statistics, according to a Washington Examiner analysis.

Immigrants traversing Mexico to get into the United States are increasingly bypassing the Texas border to cross into Arizona and California in the wake of Abbott’s stepped-up enforcement.

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