Vote expected today: Senator Vitter has offered a harmful amendment to the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill that would undercut community policing and endanger public safety, particularly the safety of immigrants who are victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Illinois Senator Richard Durbin offered the DREAM Act yesterday as an amendment to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The act would provide a six-year path to legal status for young men and women who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were children and who fulfill certain responsibilities upon their graduation from high school.

The U.S. government proposed a new regulation yesterday that would require about 750,000 permanent residents who received their green card between 1979 and 1989 to reapply for a new green card.