'Illegal Alien' Halloween Costume Sparks Ire

LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked Target stores 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."
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Illegal Alien Halloween costume: funny or mean?
A new costume trend this year has some amused and some disgusted and calling racism. To me it looked like a (somewhat not very clever) play on words. The obviously extraterrestrial alien is wearing an orange jumpsuit and border fences are irrelevant, because homeboy’s from outer space. Hardy har har. But many people are offended by the statement- I’m just not very sure there actually is a statement.
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Posted by Editor at October 19, 2009 01:29 AM