Posted on 10/18/2009 9:59:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DALLAS For just $39.99, you can now dress up as an "illegal alien" for Halloween. Target is selling the costume made up of an orange jumpsuit with the words "illegal alien" written across the chest. The costume even comes with a mask of a space invader with big eyes, and a green card.
It's not a funny matter to some leaders with LULAC, one of the largest Latino civil rights organizations in the country. Immediate National LULAC President Hector Flores says the costume is racist in nature. Flores adds, "The costume, while clearly depicting a supposed visitor from space, can generate images as portrayed a la Lou Dobbs, with his inflammatory pictures of people crawling over the fences on the southern border of the U.S., or anti-immigrant."
Target's website states the illegal alien costume is only being sold online. The costume won't be online very much longer, according to Target spokesman Joshua Thomas.
Thomas told us by phone Friday afternoon they were made aware of costume Thursday through calls to its customer relations office. Thomas adds, "We went into the process of pulling it from Target.com. It takes about 24 hours. The costume will be taken down either late Friday or early Saturday."
Flores says, "I think that Target may be stretching its marketing regardless of its racial and ethnic implications. I plan to refer this matter to our national LULAC office and general counsel for their advice."
Target's spokesman counters: "It was never our intent to offend any of our customers."
Thomas says he doesn't know if the company had any gatekeepers who could have prevented this costume from making its online site. He says, "As a company, we will try to learn something from this and apply it down the road. There are times when we make mistakes and will do what we can to correct it."
Yeah, where was the complaining there?
“It’s no fun, being an illegal alien...”
LOL.
A few bucks can be made here!
They think they have a use patent on the term.
F’em.
The movie portrayed the Border Patrol badly, so the Reconquistas weren't upset.
Racism against fictional space beings...this country is officially off the rails
Oh, please! Does it never end?
This from a woman in the middle of a dragon costume....eesh.
WTF??!!
Think, Target ...
What if you did NOT pull the costume?
You could have had an excellent opportunity to educate the masses about English grammer and the definition of words ... you could have claimed a violation of YOUR constitutional right to the PURSUIT of happiness (evil profit) .. you could have done ANYthing ... and in a few weeks, it would all be over.
Alas, you've targetted yourself as a target.
Your days are numbered, they will crush you and you will be replaced with THEM and most people will have no clue what happened to you.
Some of us know
Alinsky is their tool. It’s not fair to use Alinsky against them. /s
The package states that he has a green card...but not from anywhere on Planet Earth!
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I can sympathize with them. We stopped laughing about 25 million invaders ago!
agree 100%.
“Aliens come from outer space.” ~ Andrea Mitchell
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Why is it racist? An illegal alien can be of any race.
That cracks me up! I want one of those!
They need to shop Wal-Mart and be happy they are not deported, the fools.
Only those who need to be targeted by the Men In Black would complain.
Change to “undocumented worker”
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