Richardson says, “You asked me because I’m the Hispanic here, but I’ll answer.” The problem is the lack of a federal legalization process, he continues, and the Mexican’s government’s tacit approval of illegal immigration. We should be allowing more immigrants to come to the U.S. legally. But then he says, “Would it be more bureaucracy? Yes.” Groans all around.

Biden on Rudy: “He’s the most uninformed person in American foreign policy and running for president.”

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.