politics
President Trump proposes renaming ICE to NICE in online poll
President Trump posted a poll on his Truth Social account asking whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be renamed NICE. The proposal adds the word National to the existing acronym.
New York PostAudio version
Tap play to generate a narrated version.
Developing·Limited corroboration so far. This page will refresh as more sources emerge.
President Trump posted a poll on his Truth Social account asking whether the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be changed to NICE. The president wrote that the change would add the word National to the existing name and would affect how media outlets describe agency operations.
Background on the agency The agency was originally called the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the 2002 Homeland Security Act. Officials changed the name to ICE in 2007.
Recent events at detention facilities The proposal follows weeks of clashes outside the Delaney Hall migrant detention facility in Newark. Police arrested out-of-state individuals during the standoff, according to reports. At least two of those arrested had ties to a nonprofit group that has called for closing the facility and ending the agency.
Two individuals were fatally shot during earlier protests against agency operations in Minneapolis in January.
