The fact that “Illegal Alien” is not a race does not matter to the mob.
Mexican, likewise, is frequently used as a racial descriptor by the educationally challenged. The greater joke is the use of Latino, a cultural descriptor, to denote a racial subcatagory or the use of Hispanic to denote a minority (stress dark skinned and oppressed) when Hispanics are racially classified as a subset of European Caucasoids (white Europeans)