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From: Dale Gribble (e-mail him)

Maybe Obama's selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor was a brilliant bid for him to buy time and put an illegal immigration amnesty on the backburner.

However, reviewing some Latino/Latina blog posts from cyberspace’s diverse corners, I see cracks in Obama's Hispandering strategy.

Many don't view Sotomayor as one of their own. For example, this one: Puertorriqueñas' Stories of Life in Chicago

"Mexicans, however, inhabit a different ideological space and are often perceived as both an economic and cultural threat…. the tension between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans revolve around issues of citizenship: Mexicans hate Puerto Ricans…because they are born American citizens; and Puerto Ricans resent Mexicans because they allegedly compete for jobs and undercut legal workers' wages."

Another website poster described his view of the ethnic rift between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans:

"Sotomayor is Puerto Rican, not Mexican. Not all Hispanic groups love or even like each other. From my years in Florida I know that Cubans dislike Puerto Ricans and loath Mexicans.

“Most Cuban Americans I known think Mexicans are nothing but trash, peons and PR's, well you get the picture. Even Italians and Sicilians dislike each other. I never really met any other Hispanics (Mexicans, Central and South Americans, etc) until I moved to south Florida. There I quickly learned not all Hispanics like one another."

El Chez, a Mexican from Texas, was unimpressed with Sotomayor because she’s not “a true Chicanoâ€