Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has been condemned for her Halloween costume, which critics slammed as “disgusting.”
Boebert, according to ABC News, donned a sombrero and a Mexican-style dress to a bash in Loveland, Colorado. Her reported realtor boyfriend, Kyle Pearcy, went dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. It came amid increasing anger over President Donald Trump’s controversial crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
“It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen,” one person at the party said of Boebert’s costume to ABC News, which published images of the couple on Monday. “Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” the person added.
Other photos shared online showed Boebert holding a sign that read: “Mexican Word of the Day: Juicy. Tell me if ‘Juicy’ ICE coming.”
Stacy Suniga, the president of the Latino Coalition of Weld County, told the Boulder Daily Camera that Boebert should “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, however, struck a defiant tone, telling ABC News: “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 faced criticism for her Christmas card, which showed her family posing with firearms. The following year, she was ejected from the audience of a touring production of “Beetlejuice” in Denver. She was caught on camera allegedly groping her date and vaping.