Rep. Ilhan Omar accused the Biden team of already breaking a "core campaign promise" after officials picked to serve in the president-elect’s administration admitted that they would not roll back Trump’s immigration policies all at once.
Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming domestic policy and national security advisers, respectively, told Spanish wire service EFE that changes to the U.S.
immigration system would "take time" and migrants should not expect the border to be "fully open" right away. "This is a classic bait and switch," the Minnesota Democrat and "Squad" member wrote on Twitter. "It perpetuates Trump’s dehumanization of migrants and breaks a core campaign promise.