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Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:56 PM Monday

Lauren Boebert's racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash [View all]



Lauren Boebert's racially charged Halloween costume sparks backlash

Boebert dressed as a Mexican woman and her boyfriend as an ICE agent.

November 3, 2025, 5:09 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lauren-boeberts-racially-charged-halloween-costume-sparks-backlash/story?id=127148863&cid=social_twitter_abcn


Rep. Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy, a real estate broker from Windsor, Colo., attended a Halloween party in Loveland, Colo., on Friday night, in costumes portraying a Mexican woman and an Immigration and Customs enforcement agent, photos obtained by ABC News show.

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A chalkboard sign that appeared in other photos from a separate public event the couple attended the same night which are widely circulating online was slung on the back of a chair and is out of the frame in the pictures, according to a party guest who spoke to ABC News.

The text on the sign, which appears to be joke mocking the pronunciation of "you see" said "Mexican Word of the day: JUICY. Tell me if Juicy Ice coming."

"It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” a person who attended the party said..............





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Rep. Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy, a real estate broker from Windsor, Colo., attended a Halloween party in Loveland, Colo., on Friday night, in costumes portraying a Mexican woman and an Immigration and Customs enforcement agent, photos obtained by ABC News show.

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