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... the the the ... welcome back to Wall Street Journal's wide coverage of President Obama stated Union address which will begin shortly were talkin that some of the themes are a likely be here in the stated Union address and we're happy to be joined now by the mayor of San Antonio who leant Castro ... police in San Antonio ... mayor thank you mayor Castro thank you for joining us ... I was one of the things it's gonna be talk about tonight inevitably maybe at some length is immigration reform a subject that you've been talking about and and the andthe doing some work on ... how close do you think the two parties in Washington are on figuring out a way to address this issue or other fishers are starting to become clear ... well there's no question that are there some ... reason for hope ... the particularly because ... the Senate a group of eight senators is you know ... a bipartisan group is was the president have put together a framework for moving forward on copper head to the immigration reform ... that is pretty close ... to each other ... the question now is ... in is why was the ... testified last week and for the House Judiciary Committee the question is ... will will House Republicans ... and ... the robe right now seems the question of what to do with the eleven million ... undocumented duty legal whatever word you want to use ... eleven million folks were here ... right now ... the ... Democratic position ... and the bipartisan working group at least ... are willing to consider a path to citizenship ... whereas it seems like the House Republicans ... I'll do not ... support a path to citizenship they want to keep the folks in some sort of ... legal limbo ... my hope is that the dough be able to work that out and offering ... citizenship ... after posting a fun and a backpack to taxes ... learn English ... and going back online ... so Manchester New supposes anything that the president to say tonight that might help resolve the impasse or is that just NFP work through in weeks and months to come ... well I believe that he can move the ball forward on it by highlighting ... I believe that the mayor ally to ... the personal stories the human stories and ... sold eleven million folks ... whether it's the don't folks with a promising future that would benefit from Internet component ... of a four ... folds who served in the military ... the eleven million folks that there are very proud to be in United States and have a lot to contribute ... but I think it's also fair to say that the most of this is can be done in the back and forth in the Congress but I know it's interesting you say that I noted earlier today that one of the people sitting in the first lady's box tonight watching the speech is going to be one of those dreamers the ... child of ... the illegal undocumented aliens ... aam in and as the big move in the Republican Party's most Democratic party ... to find a way to leave those people of path toward ... legal status in and I think that's the consensus item in this from business ... yet ... I will say that ... all the issues out there ... it does seem like the election of the biggest impact on this issue immigration reform ... of ... the parties are ... not nearly as far apart as they were before so there's some hope that ... with a bit of a Bush on both sides the aisle ... this thing can happen ... American Salon Su one final question you're you're mayor takes you close to the grassroots obviously ... what's your sense of how much attention people one B C paid here ... in the one issue such as immigration form versus the core economic issues versus the bread and butter meat potatoes and cheese ... in my mind there's no question there are no matter what to order the country are in or what someone's background ... the meat and potatoes issue is the economy ... and people wanna make sure when I have confidence that ... that there's a plan ... so that we can grow the middle class create new jobs ... prepare people for ... entering the workforce of tomorrow ... that has to be front center in and I'm confident that ... as an Obama ... will put a front center ... but issues like immigration reform ... are also important ... and they deserve to be a ... highlight