Nancy Mace reveals truth behind her 'dolled up' look at migrant raid as she hits back at critics

South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace has deed backmost against rivals who criticized her quality arsenic she took a ride-along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

A video taken by the GOP Congresswoman arsenic she accompanied agents to hunt down illegals drew harsh scrutiny for her glamorous look. 

But successful a effect to the backlash, she said she hadn't intended to basal retired and felt the effect was governmental drivel.

Mace said: 'Didn't lavation my look oregon my hairsbreadth from the time before, but the Left says I got dolled up. OK,' which was accompanied by 3 laughing-face emojis. 

The scrutiny erupted when Mace shared a 42-second clip to X wherever she was seen wearing a bulletproof vest connected Friday morning.

The caption of the video read: 'We're not conscionable talking astir deporting amerciable aliens - we're retired present seeing it successful enactment for ourselves - firsthand.' 

In the video, which has since gone viral, Mace recounted the ride-along successful Goose Creek, South Carolina, and discussed what she had witnessed during the raid.

'Rise and radiance cupcakes, we are headed retired with ICE this morning,' Mace said astatine the opening of the video, which appeared to beryllium successful the aboriginal greeting hours arsenic it was acheronian wrong the car. 

In the adjacent clip, which was filmed successful daylight, Mace sat successful the car and talked astir seeing 'illegal aliens first-hand.'

'You came present illegally, you're distributing fentanyl, get the f*** out,' she said.

The Congresswoman claimed that 'guns were drawn', during the ordeal - including 'long barrel' rifles during the aggravated raid.

She mentioned however a ceiling was ripped down due to the fact that 1 migrant supposedly attempted to fell from ICE agents wrong the ceiling.

'We are watching them instrumentality the fishy retired now,' she said portion looking retired the window.

She explained however she was watching the agents get 'these illegals and cause dealers sidesplitting American radical disconnected our streets.' 

'And these agents, national agents, getting this feline retired of determination - what they person done this greeting - large job. Just astonishing to spot them astatine enactment and doing what they request to bash to enactment America first.'

While attempting to radiance a airy connected deportation efforts of amerciable migrants, dozens of radical flocked to the comments to impeach retired the 47-year-old person for seeking attention, galore accusing her of 'cosplay' portion others referenced her make-up and bold lashes.

'So is Nancy Mace playing formal up with Kristy Noem too?' 1 remark read. 'Or is she jealous and wants much attention?'

Someone other added: 'Are you a Congresswoman oregon an ICE agent??? How astir you halt playing formal up and bash YOUR job. This isn't a world show.' 

'These thrust on Malibu Barbie vids are truly kinda silly,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

Another remark read: 'Awwww! Are you playing formal up?'

'Take disconnected the vest you buffoon,' different idiosyncratic added. 

Another idiosyncratic chimed successful and said: 'P*** disconnected ICE Barbie.' 

Mace personally took the clip to respond to respective of the hundreds of comments, including 1 idiosyncratic who said that the 'Anderson Cooper cosplay getup isn't working.'

'This was a precise unsafe idiosyncratic and we were each required to deterioration the vest. Long tube rifles were drawn, and if thing were to happen, they'd privation to marque definite everyone astir is safe,' she responded.

'I privation to convey ICE for keeping maine harmless arsenic I watched on!'

In 2023, Mace wore a garment that had the missive 'A' connected it aft voting arsenic a mode to oust Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker of California, The Daily Beast reported.

The garment was said to beryllium successful notation to The Scarlet Letter, a caller astir a pistillate who was ordered to deterioration a scarlet 'A' arsenic punishment for an enactment of infidelity.

In December, the Congresswoman claimed that a transgender activistic shook her manus truthful hard that she needed to beryllium enactment into a sling afterwards.

James McIntyre, the activist, was arrested for the incident. However, witnesses of the brushwood person questioned her relationship of the handshake aft they described it arsenic being a 'normal interaction.'

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Mace asked Missouri Representative Jasmine Crockett if she wanted to 'take it outside' - a connection she aboriginal said was not meant to allude to immoderate benignant of violence.

The assertive verbal confrontation came aft Crockett accused Mace of villainizing transgender radical solely for governmental reasons. 

The Friday greeting raid occurred successful a vicinity connected Brick Greens Road. Mace said that she witnessed a 'very sooth operation' which resulted successful respective radical being taken into custody, Count On News 2 reported.

Mace told the outlet that the man, who she described arsenic the 1 hiding successful the ceiling, was a precise unsafe idiosyncratic wanted for fentanyl distribution.

'He was precocious caught with 3.5 grams of fentanyl,' she said. 'This is idiosyncratic successful our ain backyard, successful Goose Creek. That magnitude of fentanyl could termination hundreds if not much people.'

'This feline is getting a one-way summons backmost to immoderate state helium came from, and helium tin enactment there.'

LJ Roscoe, the main of the Goose Creek Police Department, told the outlet that his section was not notified successful beforehand that ICE would beryllium serving warrants astatine the location.

However, Mace claimed that it was each a miscommunication and that section authorities should 'of course' beryllium notified earlier an cognition is carried out.

Friday's ride-along came conscionable days aft Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's caller homeland information secretary, was called retired for her look portion retired connected an migration raid successful The Bronx, New York.

Similar to Mace, the 53-year-old caput donned successful afloat makeup, a headdress implicit perfectly curled hairsbreadth and an ICE ballistic vest.

Noem, who oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful her relation atop DHS, has been pictured astatine section events dressed successful the aforesaid ensemble respective times this week. 

ICE has already arrested implicit 7,500 aliens since Donald Trump entered office, a White House authoritative revealed to DailyMail.com this week. Deportation efforts person been underway regular since the Republican's inauguration.