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Rick Perry Takes Too Much Credit For Reductions In Border Crossings

The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry routinely boasts that border apprehensions dropped 74 percent in Texas after he sent state law enforcement to the border last year. But Perry takes too much credit. There was a sharp decline in apprehensions of individuals illegally crossing into the Rio Grande Valley, according to figures from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

 

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