Spirit’s “Sexy Border Patrol” Halloween Costume Crosses the Line

  • by: Care2
  • recipient: Spirit Halloween
When it comes to Halloween costumes, there’s no shortage of controversy. Every year, you can find someone who thinks cultural appropriation or wearing blackface makeup is acceptable, or someone who thinks a tone-deaf, but topical, costume is funny. This year is no different - the offensive costumes are already coming out.

Spirit Halloween is selling a “Border Babe” costume that encourages customers to "lay down the law on Halloween" and to “straddle the border between being legally lovely and criminally hot.” The costume comes equipped with a short dress, hat, badge, removable orange button, belt and binoculars.

Please join in demanding that Spirit pull this upsetting costume.

This isn’t the first year that Spirit has sold a “sexy border patrol” costume, but it is especially tasteless this year with Trump as president. Since he began campaigning for the White House, Trump has called Mexican immigrants “rapists,” fought for a useless border wall and asked Mexico to pay for it, and moved to end DACA which would lead to hundreds of thousands of people who grew up in America being deported.

Under Trump’s leadership, ICE and Border Patrol agents have become emboldened, tearing up families with no remorse and causing families to live in perpetual fear of deportation.

Spirit has defended the costume, saying that it “playfully acknowledge[s] topical themes.” But there is nothing playful about Spirit’s “Border Babe” costume. Please sign this petition and together we can put pressure on Spirit to stop selling this callous costume.
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