The United States and Mexico have reached a new agreement aimed at bolstering security and immigration processes as arrests at the border tick up just days before the Border Patrol will lose its ability to immediately send people back to Mexico.

Biden administration officials reached the new deal with Mexican officials during a visit to Mexico City this week. The plan is meant to stem some of the irregular migration through the region by opening up new legal pathways that deter people from entering the U.S. without authorization between the ports of entry.

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the White House's Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall confirmed that Mexico will accept deported illegal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — a move that Mexico had refused to make during most of the pandemic.

In addition, the U.S. will grant admission and work permits to 100,000 people from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who apply through the family reunification parole process. Immigrants do not need to seek asylum to be allowed into the U.S.

Both countries agreed to crack down on smugglers and human traffickers, particularly in Panama's Darien Gap jungle, where immigrants, including Haitians and Venezuelans, pay cartels to lead them through the dangerous journey in order to get out of South America and into Central America.

The new actions come a day after the Pentagon confirmed that it would send in 1,500 active-duty troops to do non-law enforcement jobs at the border and free up Border Patrol to attend to the border, not menial tasks.

Last week, the Biden administration announced that the U.S. had entered into agreements to open regional processing centers in several countries that immigrants most often travel through to get to the U.S. Its first processing centers were set up in Colombia and Guatemala.

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"Individuals from the region will be able to make an appointment on their phone to visit the nearest [regional processing center] before traveling, receive an interview with immigration specialists, and if eligible, be processed rapidly for lawful pathways to the United States, Canada, and Spain," according to a government fact sheet that outlined the policy changes.

But Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas admitted the new centers outside the U.S. would only be capable of processing up to 6,000 people a month — roughly the number of immigrants arrested attempting to enter the U.S. illegally every day in the last two years.