Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has endorsed Donald Trump’s immigration agenda on the eve of their first meeting at the White House, saying he supports a wall on the US-Mexico border and that most immigrants to the United States wish to do harm.

Bolsonaro, a far-right congressman who rode to the presidency with a brash, anti-establishment campaign modeled on Trump’s 2016 run, has pledged a new era of pro-American policy in the southern hemisphere’s second-largest country.

Boe Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting, Bolsonaro threw his weight behind Trump’s immigration agenda.

“We do agree with President Trump’s decision or proposal on the wall,” Bolsonaro told Fox News. “The vast majority of potential immigrants do not have good intentions. They do not intend to do the best or do good to the US people.

“I would very much like the US to uphold the current immigration policy, because to a large extent we owe our democracy in the southern hemisphere to the United States,” he said.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, rose to power praising the US-backed military government that ran Brazil for two decades before a return to democracy in 1985, echoing cold war rhetoric in his presidential campaign about the need to fight a continued communist threat.

Bolsonaro pledged during his campaign to build closer ties with the US and has often expressed admiration for Trump. He sought to underscore his pro-America stance with a tweet upon his arrival on Sunday.

“For the first time in a while, a pro-America Brazilian president arrives in DC,” he wrote. “It’s the beginning of a partnership focused on liberty and prosperity, something that all of us Brazilians have long wished for.”

Bolsonaro continued that message in remarks to the US Chamber of Commerce Monday. “You have a president who is a friend of the United States who admires this beautiful country,” he said.

In his Fox News interview, Although he did not get into specifics of his agenda in Washington, Bolsonaro said the presidents would discuss a deepening political and economic crisis in Venezuela.

Bolsonaro said Brazil is the country most interested in seeing an end to the government of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, which he called a “drug trafficking dictatorship”.

In addition to their shared political agenda, Bolsonaro spoke hopefully of a blossoming friendship with Trump.

“I’m willing to open my heart up to him and do whatever is good, to the benefit of both the Brazilian and the American people,” he said.