Obama: I'll get immigration reform done next year

I'm sure this will happen in the next term, he will be able to get it through when there is no concern about another election.   - - Donna Poisl

By BRIAN MONTOPOLI / CBS NEWS

President Obama says he is "confident" that, if reelected, he will oversee passage of immigration reform next year, in part because Republicans will have an interest in reaching out to a growing Latino voting bloc they have "alienated" in recent years.

Mr. Obama made the comment in an off-the-record phone conversation with the publisher and editor of the Des Moines Register days ahead of that newspaper's scheduled announcement of an endorsement in the presidential race. After the Register's editor publicly argued that the 30-minute conversation should be available to all voters, the Obama campaign released the transcript.

"The second thing I'm confident we'll get done next year is immigration reform," Mr. Obama told the newspaper.   
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