House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Thursday criticized the Biden administration for discussing amnesty for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients with the president of Mexico as talks continue on a bipartisan border security deal aimed at stemming the flow of illegal migration.

Johnson made the comments in response to a joint statement released Thursday from the United States and Mexico on a meeting Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador held with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.

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The statement released by Mexico noted that the “delegations also discussed the benefits of regularizing the situation of Hispanic migrants who have been undocumented for several years and the DACA beneficiaries, who are a vital part of the US economy and society.”

“At a time when America is experiencing the worst border crisis in our nation’s history, it is unconscionable to hear the Biden Administration’s announcement that Secretaries Mayorkas and Blinken discussed with the President of Mexico amnesty for illegal immigrants,” Johnson said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to news of what was discussed during the meeting.

“The United States must focus on policies that deter — not attract — people attempting to come here illegally, and the smugglers who profit from the catastrophe at our border,” he added. “This development further demonstrates the Administration has no real intention of solving the humanitarian disaster and immediate national security crisis their policies have created.”

Johnson went on to call on President Joe Biden to “take immediate steps to stop the flow of illegal immigration into our country.”

A bipartisan working group of senators has spent weeks negotiating a border security deal, which would be added to a defense spending bill that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Negotiators on both sides have acknowledged that the border measure is critical to passing the legislation through both chambers.

Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have been leading the negotiations, which have centered largely on changes to federal asylum policy and how the Biden administration uses the humanitarian parole authority. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has also been heavily involved in the talks.

There have also been reports that the White House has offered to establish a new border expulsion law and increase mandatory detention rates as part of the negotiations, though no one from the Senate working group or the Biden administration has confirmed as much publicly.

For his part, Johnson has publicly insisted that the border provision in Biden’s defense legislation be the Senate’s version of H.R. 2, House Republicans' signature border bill.

Senate GOP negotiators, however, have pushed back on the notion that they are demanding Democrats agree to H.R. 2.

“We are not asking for all of H.R. 2. I know that's [Democrats’] claim all the time,” Lankford told the Washington Examiner in an interview earlier this month.

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“We understand the dynamics. The House passed something without Democrat support. We don't have that privilege. We have to do everything in a bipartisan way in the Senate. That's just the nature of the Senate, especially one that's equally divided,” the Oklahoma senator continued.

“We're aware we're not in the House," he said. "We're in the Senate. We're keenly aware of that, but we also understand that this can't be just something decorative."