Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has been condemned for her Halloween costume, which critics slammed as “disgusting.”
Boebert, in keeping with ABC Information, donned a sombrero and a Mexican-style costume to a bash in Loveland, Colorado. Her reported realtor boyfriend, Kyle Pearcy, went dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. It got here amid growing anger over President Donald Trump’s controversial crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
“It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen,” one individual on the get together stated of Boebert’s costume to ABC Information, which revealed photos of the couple on Monday. “Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” the individual added.
Different pictures shared on-line confirmed Boebert holding an indication that learn: “Mexican Word of the Day: Juicy. Tell me if ‘Juicy’ ICE coming.”
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Stacy Suniga, the president of the Latino Coalition of Weld County, advised the Boulder Day by day Digital camera that Boebert ought to “be ashamed of herself.”
“Though I believe she is incapable of any emotion that generates human decency,” Suniga added. “Her bigotry and ignorance are clearly evident in her chosen apparel this day.”
A spokesperson for Boebert, nevertheless, struck a defiant tone, telling ABC Information: “It’s a Halloween costume. Tell our Senators to vote for the CR and open the government. They are choosing to let millions of American families suffer.”
In 2022, Boebert confronted criticism for her Christmas card, which confirmed her household posing with firearms. The next yr, she was ejected from the viewers of a touring manufacturing of “Beetlejuice” in Denver. She was caught on digital camera allegedly groping her date and vaping.
