'Illegal Alien' Costume Controversy

A Southern California immigrant rights group asked Target stores to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it says 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 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 Halloween costume was featured here on Target's web site, but was no longer available there as of Saturday morning.

Target spokesman Joshua Thomas had said that the company would remove 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.


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