A disturbing Halloween display in Houston appears to show effigies of federal immigration agents wearing red MAGA-like hats hanging from gallows — drawing backlash just days after surging anti-ICE rhetoric led to a deadly shooting at an agency facility in Dallas.
The shocking front-yard display in the majority-Hispanic Second Ward neighborhood in Harris County showed the red hat-wearing mannequins strung up on a noose from homemade gallows that featured a small Mexican flag, Fox News reported.
The figures’ attire — black shirts, tan pants and face masks with zip ties in their pockets — drew comparisons to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Two coffins flanked the gallows, and a hangman mannequin wearing a straw hat and colorful poncho stood over a fourth dummy that appeared to have its hands tied.
The sick display is cordoned off with barbed wire fencing, video showed.
Tens of thousands of social media users expressed their outrage at the jarring exhibit, with one extremely agitated X user writing in a viral post, “This hateful display will likely be inciting violence. It goes past free speech. Arrest who did this.”
The twisted decorations are drawing ire as conservatives continue to push back on targeted violence and an increase in incendiary political rhetoric from the left, which has resulted in real-world shootings.
Anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn fired on a van at the Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday, killing one detainee and injuring two others before turning the Nazi battle rifle on himself, according to law enforcement officials. He had scrawled “ANTI ICE” on the bullets.
The night before the shooting, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom vilified ICE on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“These are not just authoritarian tendencies — these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government,” he told the CBS host.
“That’s happening in the United States of America. Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” Newsom continued.
“People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic,” he charged.
Minnesota Democratic “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday called for ICE to be abolished and labeled the agents “vile” and “cruel” in a since-deleted post to X.
Councilman Mario Castillo, who represents District H, where the home is located and has been endorsed by local progressive organizations, did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, nor did Democratic Houston Mayor John Whitmire.
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