Immigration advocates say Rice, who until Monday led the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, was a primary force behind some of the Biden administration’s more hard-line immigration policies, including the continued use of Trump-era deterrent policies at the souther U.S. border, according to the Hill newspaper.
Rice is a Democrat and also a former top Obama administration officials.
Nayna Gupta, a National Immigrant Justice Center policy director said Rice’s departure “offers the president an opportunity to “rethink how you respond to a migration challenge with a humanitarian lens rather than a hardline, hawkish punitive response, which is what seemed to be supported by Susan Rice in the Domestic Policy Council until now.”
