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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Alejandro Serrano, Graphics by Yuriko Schumacher

Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact?

Texas DPS special agents apprehend a group of five undocumented migrants from Honduras that were caught in private property as part of Operation Lone Star in Kinney County near Brackettville on Nov. 8, 2021. The owner of the property did not sign an affidavit for arrests of undocumented migrants to be taking place at their property so the group of Hondurans will be processed by Border Patrol instead.
Texas DPS special agents apprehend a group of undocumented migrants from Honduras as part of Operation Lone Star in Kinney County near Brackettville on Nov. 8, 2021. (Credit: Verónica G. Cárdenas for ProPublica/The Texas Tribune)

To Gov. Greg Abbott, the results of his multibillion-dollar border security initiative are clear.

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