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'Illegal Alien' costume: Funny? Pro-immigrant groups urge stores to pull Halloween garb...
The Week ^ | October 21, 2009

Posted on 10/23/2009 11:21:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Bigotry isn't funny, said Cesar Baldelomar in Sojourners. But Forum Novelties Inc. is trying to cash in on racist stereotypes by selling—through Walgreens, Target, and other major retailers—an "illegal alien" Halloween costume, featuring a space alien mask, an orange prison jumpsuit, and an oversize green card. Maybe the joke would be funny if undocumented immigrants weren't still being beaten to death by young men raised on xenophobic hatred. (Watch reactions to the costume)

What "absurd outrage," said commentator Debbie Schlussel in her blog. "You can sell Nazi memorabilia on eBay," but let a secure borders group, Americans for Legal Immigration, try to sell a "funny illegal alien costume" and eBay yanks it. Sorry, but the marketplace has spoken—many costume stores that carried the costume have sold them out.

Some stores—including Walgreens' website and Target—have pulled the costumes, said Alan Colmes in Liberaland. But "my fellow pro-immigrant friends" should "lighten up." If pro-immigration groups think the Illegal Alien costume is "distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant," maybe we should "just call it an 'Undocumented Worker' costume and leave it at that."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; halloween; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; laraza; lulac
Lovin' some of the comments after the article.
1 posted on 10/23/2009 11:21:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: All

Related video:

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/101858/Video_Illegal_Alien_costume_sparks_outrage


2 posted on 10/23/2009 11:28:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Groups that advocate the breaking of laws and rewarding those who break the laws.

Legal immigrants won’t be offended


3 posted on 10/23/2009 11:29:04 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s where you can buy the costume!

http://www.buycostumes.com/Illegal-Alien-Adult-Costume/60504/ProductDetail.aspx


4 posted on 10/23/2009 11:32:58 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d wear it, but with my Latina appearance some INS type might take it a little too seriously. LOL


5 posted on 10/23/2009 11:42:07 PM PDT by JillValentine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You mean this one?


6 posted on 10/23/2009 11:43:33 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Never stab a man in the back. Stab him in the leg, he'll turn around.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some of the costumes/catagories available at Target (and whom they may offend):

Boys Transformers (Ken Jennings?)
Kids Bat Girl (see above)
Infant Turtle (PETA alert)
Womens Magical Angel (NOW Nags)
Pet Rooster (PETA again)
White Costume Boots (NOW)
Teens & Tweens (swell, just swell....)
When I grow up (ah, the current administration)
Animals and Insects (.....? )


7 posted on 10/23/2009 11:53:20 PM PDT by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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To: Markos33

That looks like Erkel.


8 posted on 10/24/2009 1:27:23 AM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Bigotry isn’t funny, said Cesar Baldelomar in Sojourners”.

...define “funny” wet back.


9 posted on 10/24/2009 1:45:40 AM PDT by albie
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**“Bigotry isn’t funny, said Cesar Baldelomar in Sojourners”.**

NO ... but Scoffing at CRIMINALS who Break in to our country IS...
We should MOCK, SCORN, and LAUGH AT ALL who BReak our LAW and Especially at “SCUMSUCKERS” Like CEsar who AID AND ABET such Criminal Behavior.


10 posted on 10/24/2009 3:41:53 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I will DIE with Israel BY MY SIDE, rather than LIVE with the CHAINS of ISLAM on my Back!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's a good one:

Posted by David, Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:40 pm
Peace and love my fello humans we need to learn to live with eachother, toleration and compassion is the key. If it makes you happy to wear such a disguise, do so. We are all citizens of this planet, wether this is our original encarnation or not. Stop the blind hate that only brings stress into your soul. It's time to accept who we are ever living, ever loving, ever wiser souls.

Where do they find these yahoos?

11 posted on 10/24/2009 3:58:54 AM PDT by Rafterman ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -- Curtis LeMay)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What, me?
12 posted on 10/24/2009 3:59:05 AM PDT by Wiz
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Isn’t it interesting how a costume that has absolutely NO indications of any particular race is immediately seized upon by the PC liberal whackjobs as being against Mexicans? Maybe Mexicans should be more concerned about why they as a nationality have become stereotyped as illegal aliens instead of enabling criminal behavior by making excuses for it.


13 posted on 10/24/2009 4:19:45 AM PDT by Rafterman ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -- Curtis LeMay)
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To: Markos33

well done!!!


14 posted on 10/24/2009 5:04:35 AM PDT by ronniesgal (is it still okay to say 'spooky' this Halloween, or is that racist now?)
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To: Rafterman

If the “alien” has a green card, then he’s not an “illegal” alien - a green card is proof of lawful permanent residency.


15 posted on 10/24/2009 5:24:37 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel

“Those are the people who really built the infrastructure of this country, banking, industry, farming, etc.”

So the few percentage of our population that came from Africa is responsible for all good and strong in this country. Ok, gee, thanks for letting me know.


16 posted on 10/24/2009 6:08:53 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy Mom)
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To: mvpel
If the “alien” has a green card, then he’s not an “illegal” alien - a green card is proof of lawful permanent residency.

It's a counterfeit green card.

17 posted on 10/24/2009 10:11:04 AM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell the Mexicans in Mexico and Spain bigotry isn’t funny. They throw bananas at the black soccer player and sell black jockey statuettes that crap something akin to a fireworks snake when you light the bare butt. Yeah, let’s hear it for those highly moral and race-neutral mexicans.


18 posted on 10/24/2009 11:30:47 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: kinghorse

Almost forgot the ching chong eyes students from Spain. These folks have taken making fun of others to a higher art form. Or maybe it’s more of a lower art form.


19 posted on 10/24/2009 11:33:00 AM PDT by kinghorse
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