Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (CLEVELAND, Texas) -- After Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott faced backlash for what critics called an effort to "dehumanize" the victims of a mass shooting in his home state over the weekend, a spokesperson appeared to walk back Abbott's remark in a statement to ABC News on Monday afternoon. The spokesperson claimed federal authorities had told "the state of Texas" that the shooting suspect and victims "were in the country illegally" but that they have since learned at least one of the victims "may have been in the United States legally" -- and that they "regret" if the information was an incorrect distraction.

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