My understanding is that in Federal crime statistics that Hispanics are tracked separately from whites when they are victims of crimes but they are lumped together with whites when they commit crimes.
Does the Federal Government get to decide what is a race? They get to just make them up.
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Under the 'La Raza' heading:
For example, La Raza demands an expansion of ''hate crimes'' laws claiming ''Traditional hate crimes against Hispanics have increased in number during the 1990s.'' What La Raza does not say is that such an increase is due to the flawed methodology employed by the U.S. government for reporting ''hate crimes.'' When ''Hispanics'' are victims of ''hate crimes'' they are classified as ''Hispanics,'' but when they are perpetrators they are classified as ''white.'' Any bias incident between a ''Hispanic'' perpetrator and a ''Hispanic'' victim, therefore, will be reported as a white on ''Hispanic'' ''hate crime.'' The number of ''hate crimes'' against ''Hispanics'' is naturally increased by such definitions.
La Raza condemns the ''step-up [in] immigration law enforcement significantly along the U.S./Mexico border and in the interior of the country'' claiming such activities violate the civil rights of ''Hispanics.''
La Raza has called upon the Congress to rescind the immigration and welfare reform acts of 1996 calling them ''a disgrace to American values.'' In addition, it has demanded another amnesty for illegal aliens from Central America coupled with this threat ''Our elected officials should not be surprised if their failure to act on reforms of these terribly unjust laws is met with a firm response at the ballot box.'' And U.S. citizens should not be surprised that those going to the ballot box for La Raza include illegal aliens and non-citizens.
Source: http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.pl?articleID=912&terms=