Some people need to get a sense of humor:
A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants.
The costume features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with “illegal alien” written across the front.
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, wrote e-mails to Minneapolis-based Target and Wisconsin-based BuySeasons, Inc. calling the costume “distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.”
The group said it also planned to send letters to other companies that are selling the costume.
Target is removing the costume from the site after receiving several complaints, company spokesman Joshua Thomas said Friday.
The store never intended to sell the outfit but included it in its online offerings by mistake, he said. [The Star Online]
If this costume featured someone looking like a mexican immigrant I could understand the outrage but it is obviously an extra-terrestrial alien.
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7:56 am on October 17th, 2009 1
This kind of thing only happens in the USA.
10:23 am on October 17th, 2009 2
Funny thing is, that's how I feel sometimes…and I'm a legal immigrant.
2:40 pm on October 17th, 2009 3
Good stuff! Man, where can I buy this!
3:27 pm on October 17th, 2009 4
How could anyone look at this costume and say "Hey, that's me.?"
3:43 pm on October 17th, 2009 5
Trust me, I look perfectly normal…Not that it matters to some based on the reaction I sometimes get when I visit a place I've never been to.
4:48 pm on October 17th, 2009 6
Maybe you look perfectly normal for an arab, but thank GOD that the police check you out. But I think you are making it all up anyway.
11:40 pm on October 17th, 2009 7
This other costume represnts mexicans better.
http://www.target.com/Tequila-Pop-Dude-Plus-Costu…
If you want to dress like a mexican, this is how you dress.
http://www.target.com/gp/search/192-5767151-30056…
3:13 am on October 18th, 2009 8
Arab? Because I like tea in the afternoon?
3:16 am on October 18th, 2009 9
I gotta give it to you, that's quite ironic.
2:14 am on October 19th, 2009 10
John Kerry originally called it in, claiming that he was born on this planet, and therefore not illegal.
7:18 pm on October 19th, 2009 11
[...] Reader Joel sent us a link to this Illegal Alien costume being sold by Walgreens and Target (though word on the street is that the costume has been yanked after complaints). [...]