Senior Trump administration officials are “furious” about a new dress code for an embattled federal agency, a journalist revealed.
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In a Friday post on X, reporter Anna Giaritelli shared that senior Trump administration officials and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are “furious with changes to ICE’s dress code.”
According to reporting by The Intercept, the new dress code bans ICE agents from wearing jeans, sweatshirts, hoodies, non-collared shirts, and T-shirts displaying graphics while they’re working in public spaces. Giaritelli wrote in her reporting for the Washington Examiner that the new guidelines went into place on July 17.
The Intercept noted in its reporting that the new dress code came “in direct response” to a pair of deadly shootings by ICE agents in Maine and Texas, as well as a botched arrest attempt by two plainclothes ICE agents at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 13.
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Giaritelli posted that senior Trump administration officials and ICE officers are now complaining “it could lead to more assaults against federal police because of how easy they will be to spot in polo shirts and khaki tactical pants.”
However, online commentators showed their support for the dress code. In an X post reacting to Giaritelli’s post, policy analyst Sarah Pierce said, “Heaven forbid the public know that it is a law enforcement officer that is questioning, arresting or shooting them.”
“I am obviously sympathetic to concerns of officer safety,” wrote immigration policy analyst Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. “But I find ICE’s claim to need to be in hiding particularly strange in light of every other law enforcement agency in the country that manages to do its job with its officers in uniform.”
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