Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would like for the United States to pay $20 billion to stop illegal immigration.

The U.S. has experienced a dramatic increase of border crossings that are illegal during the last few months, including 192,000 apprehensions during November. This was on top of 9,600 more daily encounters with migrants in the first 3 weeks in December. Texas, Florida and New York City have been at the forefront of attention over this year due to the increase in migrant numbers and a shift in the direction of politicians to other states and regions.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has declared the Biden administration’s immigration policy “an unmitigated disaster,” was among 64 House Republicans in the border town on the south in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday to visit the heavily traveled area by immigrants. The cameras were able to capture people crossing their way across the Rio Grande River to the U.S., just a few feet from political leaders.

Obrador announced at a Friday news conference that he had asked U.S. authorities to deploy the $20 billion of funds in a joint plan to assist the other nations within Latin America as record numbers of migrants are attempting to cross Central America and Mexico to get into the U.S.

Obrador has also urged for the U.S. to grant visas for at least 10 million Hispanic immigrants who have been working for longer than 10 years within the United States and this is something that he was reported to have made to the president Joe Biden during their most recent meeting in Mexico City.

Mexican Secretary of Security Rosa Icela Rodriguez said in an interview on Thursday she was told that 32 Venezuelan and Honduran migrants were abducted from an unmarked bus on December 31, by men with guns who were trying to steal cash from their families and them at home in America. U.S., according to reports.

Twenty-six were Venezuelan Six were Honduran and three had two nationalities with Colombia officials claimed.

Biden and Obrador called each other on the 21st of December regarding managing the flow of migrants, according to the White House readout. The two believed to have agreed that more enforcement was required at crucial points of entry in order they were able to open them up for people who are trying to cross legally.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall have been asked by Biden to visit Mexico.

In May, Obrador criticized the Biden administration’s removal of Title 42. Title 42 immigration policy, saying that the policy of the Trump administration was first enacted during the COVID-19 epidemic was encouraging smugglers into in the U.S. illegally.

Title 42 expired May 11 in tandem with the expiration of COVID-19 emergency health warning.