I decided to look through some of the textbooks I kept from my Criminal Justice courses in University. I found many interesting comments on illegals. In the 2005 edition of: "The Police In America An Introduction" by Samuel Walker and Charles M. Katz, in part four: Issues in Policing a section on Different Racial and Ethnic Groups. There was a subsection on page 386 titled: "The Hispanic/Latino Community." This paragraph actually mentions La Raza.

"Police community relations (PCR) problems exist with respect to the HIspanic/Latino American community. A report by the National Council of La Raza declared that "relations between the Hispanic community and local police across the country have grown tense as the Latino population has increased both in number and as a proportion of those reporting civil rights abuses." A Bureau of Justice Statistic report on police-citizen contacts found that Hispanics experience fewer contacts with police than either whites or African Americans. The Hispanic community experiences particular problems related to the enforcement of immigration laws. In addition to abuses by federal agents along the U.S.-Mexican border, Hispanics have been subject to workplace raids at places of employment across the country. In some of these incidents, local police officers have worked in cooperation with Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agents.