Posted on 09/26/2017 2:59:11 PM PDT by Hadean
With Halloween fast approaching, costumes are quickly filling the racks. And one costume, in particular, is under fire. A U.S. “Border Patrol” get-up has generated outrage on social media in the wake of President Donald Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), among other controversial comments he’s made regarding the border between the United States and Mexico.
The costume from Spirit Halloween Superstores features a military green t-shirt that reads “Agent Wall” and “Border Patrol.” A”Border Patrol” hat can be purchased, in addition to a women’s version that reads: “Border Babe.”
The company’s website pitches the item with what some have called “tone-deaf” words: “Keep the border safe today, tomorrow and on Halloween! Let everyone know that you mean business with this border patrol work shirt!”
People have taken to social media to share their disapproval of the uniform, which is currently sold out. One user asked the store, “Do you have any idea how many lives and families are ruined over that?” Another urged shoppers to skip Spirit Halloween this season, writing: “This border patrol costume is offensive in every way and normalizes racism.”
Spirit Halloween defends the costume—which they have no plans of discontinuing—by saying it’s all in jest during the presidential news frenzy.
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Found my Halloween Costume.
Over illegally invading our sovereign country?
That that?
Self inflicted. No sympathy.
Was that guy one of the Village People?
10 or 20 guys should all buy one and hang around the barrio, Home Depot, ethnic restaurants, courthouses and welfare offices, just for fun.
Best part of this costume is that you can have a bit of fun with it all year long!!
And the problem is?
It did last year too. But you need a buddy in the poncho and bean picking sombrero to really cause a ruckus.
Ola. Soy de la Migra.
Happy Halloween, mi muchachos!
Excellent!
Who knew, citizens have opinions too.
LOL
LOL! "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
I want the one with La Migra on the cap.
It’s just a Halloween costume, as many others. What is the big deal?
With their hit song MAGA.
LOL. I got the perfect “bean picker” in mind to accompany me...hehe (gf)
Recently politicized stuff (Tell me what I missed):
Marriage
Dating
School
Military
Firearms
Fraternities
Sports
T-shirt making
Church
Cake baking
Pizza making
flower arranging
facility rental
photography
ride-sharing
Mexican food (inauthentic and demeaning if whites serve/make/eat it)
cafe cups (starbucks, a few times)
wedding video making
Entertainment media
news media
sexuality (boy is a girl)
raising children
kids books (Pepe and pede)
religion
weather
academia
science (warming)
internet search engines
Cotton stalk stems in a vase (black students visit faculty home, see alcove display, feelings shattered)
cupcakes
pastries (eaten at school into gun shape, sent home)
Bananas (hanging on Univ. campus tree branch, offended blacks)
Nooses
American flag t-shirts (on cinqo de mayo, at school)
Whitehouse visits by basketball teams
Pumpkin spice lattes
Picnics (”sounds too much like ‘pick yer n**ger’”)
scoops of ice-cream (Trump got two, one for rest)
meatloaf (Christie, “Trump made me order meatloaf”)
Asian sportscasters named Lee
Statues
The word “niggardly”
most Halloween costumes (Mexican, geisha, hawaiian, Indian)
Fiestas (demeaning to Mexicans)
Comic book characters (many gay ones)
Anything written by Mark Twain
Any movie directed by Mel Brooks (e.g. Blazing Saddles)
Father Serra
Columbus
All founding fathers
I mean if liberals would just get a sense of humor they might see this as making fun of the wall, but if course they’re miserable hate filled losers.
Going to this site might cause problems- my ublock program said it was blocking 78K requests, and it locked up my Mozilla.
Too lame. I want the ICE uniform.
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