Julian Castro: If immigration fails “everyone will know” House Republicans are to blame

By Alessandra Hickson, NBCLatino

San Antonio Democrat Mayor Julian Castro may have been on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports today to talk about his city’s AAA rating and economic stability, but NBC’s Andrea Mitchell also pressed him for answers regarding  immigration reform and the possibility of Texas turning blue.

“It’s an exciting time to be in Texas right now as a Democrat,” said Castro, who shares this month’s cover of Texas Monthly with two other Texas Democrats — his brother, Representative Joaquin Castro, and Senator Wendy Davis. “There’s a feeling in the air that things are changing.” He said it’s not a question of whether or not Texas will become a blue state, but “the question is when. How long will it take?”

When the topic turned to immigration, Mayor Castro said that “the Hispanic community and all Americans are very closely watching Speaker Boehner and those House Republicans. If immigration reform fails, everyone will know very clearly — going into 2014 and 2016 — that it was the House Republicans that caused it to fail.”

This article was first published in NBCLatino.

Alessandra Hickson is a multimedia journalist from Philadelphia, PA now based in New York, NY with a passion for lifestyle, politics and film.  Alessandra began her career in journalism while pursuing her MA in Magazine Writing from New York University. She researched and blogged for Glamour, ELLE.com and Seventeen. Alessandra’s interest in digital journalism led her to blogging about Afro-Latino culture and music for the site losafrolatinos.com and Being Latino. She is now a News Associate at NBC News. Her work has appeared on NBC Latino, NBC News.com, The Daily Nightly and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.