On Monday, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris about “completely opening” the roughly 2,000 miles of U.S.-Mexico border. The border has been closed to non-essential travel for over a year because of Covid-19.

According to The Daily Wire:

Obrador tweeted, “We spoke again with Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. In good terms, we dealt with the immigration issue, the complete opening of the northern border to reactivate our economies and continue with mutual cooperation to face the pandemic.”

“The White House said the two leaders discussed ongoing bilateral cooperation to address ‘irregular migration’ to the shared U.S.-Mexican border, and agreed to focus on bolstering Central American economies through investment in agriculture and climate resilience,” Reuters reported, adding, “The U.S. vice president also told Lopez Obrador that Washington was committed to sending additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico, on top of the 4 million doses already delivered, the White House said.”

Earlier in the day, Lopez Obrador told a morning news conference, “This is what I’m going to suggest today, that we can demonstrate that we’re not putting the population at risk.”

The Biden administration has been hit with repeated accusations it is helping spread the virus by allowing migrants to surge into the country, often illegally. Reports have alleged that migrants are not being tested for this virus before being released into the country and traveling from coast to coast as American cities begin reimposing mandates due to the delta variant.

So far the Biden administration has allowed a record-breaking amount of migrants into the country in the past months despite claiming the border is “closed.”