Target Badgered to Remove “Offensive” Halloween Costume
October 16, 2009 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Economy, Family values, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: Halloween, illegal aliens, Illegal Immigrants, Miami Herald, Target stores
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`Illegal alien’ Halloween costume offensive, groups say
LOS ANGELES — (AP) — A Southern California immigrant rights group has asked Target stores to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants.
The costume, posted on Target’s web site, features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with “illegal alien” written across the front.
Target spokesman Joshua Thomas says the company is removing the costume from the site after receiving several complaints.
He says the store never intended to sell the outfit but included it in its online offerings by mistake.
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, says she wrote an e-mail to the Minneapolis-based retailer Friday calling the costume “distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.”
The full article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1286691.html
LOS ANGELES — (AP) — A Southern California immigrant rights group has asked Target stores to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it says is offensive to immigrants.
The costume, posted on Target’s web site, features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with “illegal alien” written across the front.
Target spokesman Joshua Thomas says the company is removing the costume from the site after receiving several complaints.
He says the store never intended to sell the outfit but included it in its online offerings by mistake.
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, says she wrote an e-mail to the Minneapolis-based retailer Friday calling the costume “distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform.”
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October 17, 2009 at 5:09 am
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
Getting kind of sensitive aren’t we?
I do not see anything wrong with this costume.
October 17, 2009 at 10:50 am
Pissed off with stupid people
Wow I can see how that costume resembles a Mexican, look at the face that totally looks like he is wearing a sombrero and even has a bottle of tequila in his hand. Oh wait no it does not. The term illegal alien is that not someone who is illegally entering a country, does that mean that it is illegal which if I remember is wrong right. So stupid people are offended because of a costume that is making fun of an illegal activity and portrays that of en extraterrestrial. Grow up and stop crying, your a waste of air and organic tissue if this is a big concern of yours
October 17, 2009 at 12:07 pm
i george
Great great costume. Someone at target has a good sense of humor.
October 18, 2009 at 9:20 am
Annoyed
Seriously.. This is just a costume.. It shouldn’t be considered racist. Its an Alien from a different plant not a different country.
October 18, 2009 at 12:22 pm
JAMES
I agree wholeheartedly.
October 20, 2009 at 6:19 am
Delaware Bob
So, the illegal aliens are offended by the costume? GOOD! Then go back to your own Country and you wouldn’t have to look at them! If someone comes to my home wearing the costume, I will double the treat!
I for one, am sick and tired of these illegal aliens snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these illegal aliens out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more illegal aliens to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It’s time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these illegal aliens. It’s time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the illegal aliens, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
November 1, 2009 at 11:06 pm
DenzelWm
Good morning, Happy day-after-haloween! Today the real scares come when all you one night standers find out you just got a nasty case of herpes.
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November 2, 2009 at 10:06 am
sergio
Thats ignorance mexicans are called illegal aliens all the time thats y it is wrong. It is secretly refering to mexicans. How would a white person like it if a person wore a messed up t shirt long messy blonde hair, talked with a white thrash accent and said they weren’t rednecks. Or if a white guy or mexican was wearing a jacked up t-shirt and no shoes with a basket of cotton and said they weren’t refering to black people. And wat the hell is up with the people saying mexicans are taking jobs. They are just taking the jobs you lazy people will not take.
i hate when people say mexicans are just making trouble with gangs and stuff, dug trafficking well white people are getting caught selling and making meth, and so do black people. once in a while a white guy is on the chase cause he violnelty raped and murdered a little girl.
please we are all the same, get rid of your ignorance.