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Voter fraud is uncommon in Texas but do most cases involve mail?
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Homicides are up in Austin, little proof it s tied to police defunding
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PolitiFact s ruling: True
Here s why: Unaccompanied minors have been arriving at the southern U.S. border in record numbers since President Joe Biden took office, and Republican leaders in border states have been quick to highlight the challenges the federal government is facing.
Gov. Greg Abbott has hammered the Biden administration on border issues throughout March. First he accused the administration of “reckless border policies” that have released migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 into the U.S. And in recent weeks, the governor has focused on the uptick of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border.
On March 30, Abbott claimed in a tweet that “twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”
In context: Operation Undaunted and crime in Austin
U.S. Attorney Gregg Sofer is the latest official to link rising crime rates in Austin with the Austin City Council’s recent decision to cut police funding.
On Dec. 18, Sofer stood at a podium before Austin’s press corps to announce that his office will be joining state efforts to combat violent crime in the capital an initiative called Operation Undaunted. Sofer stood flanked by two large cardboard cutouts with charts that compared the city’s homicide and aggravated assault rates in 2020 to those in 2019.
Through the first 10 months of this year, the city’s homicide rate was up by 54% compared to the first 10 months of 2019 from 26 last year to 40 in 2020. Aggravated assaults were up by 19% as of October, from 2,200 in 2019 to 2,620 this year. Austin is one of several cities across the U.S. that has recorded sharp increases in homicides since the beginning of the pandemic.