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Halloween is just 10 days away, so time is running out for partiers to come up with a unique or timely costume.

But a handful of "immigrant advocate" groups upset with a new Halloween outfit are urging people to remember: It's no fun being an illegal alien.

The costume depicts an Area 51-like space creature in an orange prison jumpsuit emblazoned with the moniker "illegal alien." The garb also comes with a green card.

This has those who favor illegal immigration hyperventilating. The costume "perpetuates this idea we have about undocumented immigrants as alien foreigners, strangers, scary," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights in Los Angeles.

Oh, the humanity!

The coalition has already pressured a handful of namby-pamby retailers -- Target, Walgreens, eBay -- into dropping the costume, but it remains available at a number of other outlets.

"It's a joke," a Miami man whose mother immigrated from Cuba told The Associated Press about the costume. "I really don't think much of it."

Finally, a voice of reason. Lighten up, people.