Overview
- Trump endorsed changing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement” in a Truth Social repost.
- Snopes confirmed the endorsement as true and noted that the White House and the Department of Homeland Security used the proposed name on their social media pages.
- A legal change would require Congress to amend the laws that establish the agency’s name.
- DHS has offered no timeline or cost for a switch, and a spokesperson pointed only to a post that said “ICE is NICE.”
- A recent Pentagon proposal to rename the Department of Defense illustrated the scope of such changes, estimating 7,594 statutory edits and $51.5 million in costs.