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Various family-friendly stores such as Target, Walgreens, ToysRUs and Amazon are selling a halloween costume labeled "Illegal Alien". The "alien" wears an orange jumpsuit, carries a "Green Card" and looks like a science-fiction creature. Judge for yourself: this is the image as seen in the Target website:

CHIRLA, and many other organizations and community supporters, has asked these stores to drop this item from their inventory because it denigrates immigrant identity.

Read what bloggers and forum participants are saying about this mask: Half Forums

The Associated Press reported on this story earlier. Read different versions of the same story here: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, KABC-TV 7, KTAR, HTOP, Don Surber Blog, WHO-TV Des Moine, KTLA, CBS TV 5 San Francisco, The Left Is Evil