Fox News Digital spoke to GOP Rep. Gabe Evans about his first 90 days in Congress. (Getty)
Evans, a former captain in the National Guard and former police officer, was elected to Congress in November, defeating incumbent Democrat Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District.
Evans told Fox News Digital he has been very "excited" over the past three months to work on issues he campaigned on, including securing the border, ending the "scourge of fentanyl" and working to lower crime rates.
"It's been really, really rewarding to be able to do things like pass the the Halt Fentanyl Act out of the U.S. House, introduce my bill, the Uplift Act, unhandcuffing police to locate and interdict foreign transgressors so that we can empower state and local law enforcements and sanctuary states like Colorado to work with their federal counterparts to get violent criminals and cartel members who are illegally present in the country and committing other crimes out of the community. For me that's been the flavor of the first three months."
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Evans told Fox News Digital that Republicans will also continue to address crime and illegal immigration, which he says the president has already made important strides on.
"In the crime space, what we're really seeing now is a push-pull between the priorities of the new administration and Congress and blue sanctuary cities and states like Colorado and like Denver," Evans explained. "So here's the fact, Denver's homicide rate in 2024 was double San Francisco's homicide rates. Colorado is number one in the nation again, three of the last five years running, for our auto theft rate. We're number two in the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on fentanyl. We're the third most dangerous state in the country and so that fixing that problem requires a partnership between the federal state and local government."
"Under the new administration in this Congress, the federal government has suddenly gotten back to business and is doing their part. The border is secured. Border crossings are at historic lows and we have federal law enforcement agencies. who are going out into communities like mine and getting violent criminals and gangs and drug traffickers out of the community."
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