Top priorities for CD-5: Fix the broken Biden-Harris economy, secure the southern border, maintain our five military installations and keep Space Command in Colorado Springs.
Secure the southern border.
Occurrences
We must enforce border security and that includes building a wall in some areas, more border patrol agents, technology such as drones, sensors, etc.
No, we need to secure the border. Period. We need to do that. The American people want that done... Let's stop the problem first. We could secure our border.
Crank said his top priority would to limit immigration without legal permission at the U.S.-Mexico border. Crank said, "The first priority for every Republican in Congress must be stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into our country."
Evidence
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Ballotpedia's candidate profile said Crank's top priority was limiting unauthorized immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and quoted him saying Republicans' first priority must be stopping the flow of illegal immigrants.
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The House Clerk recorded S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, as passed 263-156. The vote list shows Crank, Republican, Colorado, voting Yea.
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Public Law 119-1 requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to take certain aliens into custody, including aliens charged with theft-related offenses, and amends immigration detention and enforcement provisions.
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The House Clerk recorded H.R. 1 as passed 218-214 on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment. The vote list shows Crank, Republican, Colorado, voting Aye.
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Section 90001 appropriates $46,550,000,000 for border infrastructure and wall system expenses, including barriers, access roads, cameras, lights, sensors, and other detection technology.
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Sections 90002 through 90004 appropriate funds for CBP personnel, vehicles, facilities, ICE detention capacity, and $6,168,000,000 for border security, technology, and screening.
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House Clerk roll call 214 lists S. 2, the Secure America Act, as passed; Jeff Crank, Republican of Colorado, voted Aye.
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The White House says the President signed S. 2 into law, funding DHS, CBP, and ICE through fiscal year 2029 for immigration enforcement.
Assessments
Crank made concrete same-term contributions by voting for enacted immigration and border-security measures, including the Laken Riley Act and broader laws funding border infrastructure, CBP, ICE, detention capacity, technology, and enforcement through FY2029. Those actions materially advanced the promise, but the claim was broad and outcome-based: the evidence does not show that the southern border was fully secured. Full delivery is therefore not supported.
Crank won the 2024 federal House race and, during his same congressional term, voted for enacted measures that materially advanced southern border and immigration enforcement policy, including the Laken Riley Act and H.R. 1 provisions funding border infrastructure, CBP resources, ICE capacity, technology, and screening. Those actions support meaningful partial delivery of the promise, but the broad outcome of actually securing the southern border is not established by the record, so full delivery is not warranted.