U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, stood next to the future Speaker of the House during a press conference on Tuesday at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Gonzales, a veteran, represents a district in Texas that spans over 800 miles along the border that is porous and notorious for illegal immigrants entering the U.S.

To help shed light on the illegal immigration issue, Gonzales said he has hosted 16 border trips with officials.

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Just this year, over two million migrant encounters have taken place, and he said he has been urging the Biden administration to work with the House Republican leadership to secure the border.

"Our border is wide open, and people are dying every single day," Gonzales said. "These are discussions I wish we would have in Congress. But it starts somewhere.

"Change is coming," he added. "That change is now. That change does not happen without those that are willing to roll up their sleeves and fight for it."

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Just before Gonzales stepped up to the podium, Representative Kevin McCarthy called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

McCarthy said the secretary claims the border is secure, yet he has blocked I.C.E. and Border Patrol agents from doing their jobs.

McCarthy added that three border patrol agents, just in the past 10 days, committed suicide, raising the number of agents who have committed suicide this year to 14.

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"His actions have produced the greatest wave of illegal immigration in recorded history," McCarthy said of Mayorkas. "Our country may never recover from Secretary Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty."

Gonzales was also joined by Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a Republican, who said the Border Patrol agents have had over four million encounters with illegal immigrants since Biden took office, and "he doesn’t care."

Crenshaw said the cartels are just on the other side of the border, calling it a national security crisis, and they "flood" the U.S. with "deadly Fentanyl."
"They’re at war with us, and we do nothing," he said.

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Gonzales won re-election to another two-year term in Congress by earning just over 17% more votes than his opponent, Democratic candidate John Lira.

One of the issues Gonzales ran on was securing the border, and since taking office, he has introduced legislation to end catch-and-release, increase funding for local law enforcement agencies along the border, and eliminating measures that keep Border Patrol agents in processing centers rather than on the frontlines.

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"Change is coming," he said on Tuesday. "Change is going to be led by the people standing right here."

MOSCOW, Idaho – Investigators continued combing through the scene where four college students were murdered on Tuesday, removing multiple boxes of evidence from the home in Moscow, Idaho. 

Detectives from the FBI, Idaho State Police, and Moscow Police Department have spent the past nine days at the three-story residence where Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle were stabbed to death on Nov. 13. 

A law enforcement officer could be seen loading a cardboard box and plastic bin into an SUV before driving away on Tuesday. 

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Kaylee's father, Steve Goncalves, previously told Fox News that the killer "made a mess" and police are going to "have to go through that point by point and that's going to take a lot of time.

"They're telling us that there's so much evidence that it's going to take a lot of time to process it all," Steve Goncalves told Fox News' Lawrence Jones on Saturday. "This wasn’t like a pinpoint crime. This person was sloppy."

Police have not identified a suspect or located a murder weapon in the case, but a local business owner told the Idaho Statesman that police came into his store inquiring about a "Rambo"-style combat knife.

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In addition to searching inside the house, police also cordoned off a wide area behind the home on Monday, including a parking lot and forested area. 

The four victims returned to their home around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. 

Police believe that they were murdered some time between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. A 911 call was made from one of the surviving roommates' phones shortly before noon several hours later to report an "unconscious person." 

The college town of 25,000 is now grieving while searching for answers. Other University of Idaho parents left a memorial at the home on Tuesday. 

"From one set of U of I parents to all those impacted by this incomprehensible tragedy – you have been and will continue to be in our constant prayer," a framed picture of the victims said. 

Moscow police did not return a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Tuesday.