The Unite union has said it is seeking legal advice about whether the Home Office "incited racial hatred" by sending vans around London encouraging illegal immigrants to "go home".
Its leader, Len McCluskey, called the poster-covered vehicles "vans of hate".
Nick Clegg has criticised the pilot scheme, but the Home Office said the message was not racist.
Meanwhile, new peer Doreen Lawrence has said police stop-and-check operations focus "mainly on people of colour".
The Labour-supporting mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, told ITV's Daybreak she thought "racial profiling" was involved.
The controversy comes after it was revealed that nearly 140 people had been arrested in a wave of raids aimed at tackling people working illegally in the UK.
'Free advice'The Home Office's week-long immigration publicity pilot scheme involved six vans driving around north London, carrying a board asking: "In the UK illegally?"
The poster continued: "Go home or face arrest." It supplied a text messaging number for those seeking "free advice, and help with travel documents".
Speaking on Wednesday, the deputy prime minister said he was "very surprised" to see vans "driving aimlessly around north London" telling illegal immigrants to go home, and that they were not a "very clever way" of tackling the issue.
Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 5 live that no Liberal Democrats - including Home Office minister Jeremy Browne - had known about the pilot scheme in advance.
Downing Street had said the vans had been approved by the "Home Office team".
No 10 also said on Monday that the pilot scheme using the vans had worked, although the Home Office said it was too soon to make a final assessment as a poster and leaflet campaign was continuing.
Separately, Mrs Lawrence, confirmed this week as a Labour peer, spoke out against a scheme where spot checks have been carried out near railway stations as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
She said: "Why would you focus mainly on people of colour?
"I'm sure there's illegal immigrants from all countries, but why would you focus that on people of colour, and I think racial profiling is coming into it."
Some 139 people were arrested at locations including London, Durham, Manchester, Wales and Somerset.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We make no apology for enforcing our immigration laws and our officers carry out hundreds of operations like this every year around London.
"Where we find people who are in the UK illegally, we will seek to remove them."
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