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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Christelle May Napiza

NICE Agents? Trump Confirms Plan to Rename ICE While Moving Forward with Record Breaking US Deportation

The president's push to rename one of America's most embattled enforcement agencies is equal parts political theatre and signal, arriving as ICE operates at the highest detention levels ever recorded and pursues a stated goal of one million removals per year.

President Donald Trump publicly endorsed renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, yielding the acronym NICE, in a late Sunday Truth Social post, instructing officials to act on a suggestion designed to force media outlets to say 'NICE agents' every time they cover the agency. The move arrives as ICE faces a partial government shutdown, record detention figures, and one of the most contentious periods in its 23-year history. It also arrives one day after a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, a fact that underscores the volatile political atmosphere in which this rebrand is being floated.

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