Senators Menendez (D-IL) and Kennedy (D-MA) introduced S. 3594, the Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act. The bill would preserve basic due process rights for U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and workers involved in labor disputes who are swept up in immigration raids. Read more at the National Immigration Forum.

S.3114, introduced by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), would codify many of the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its report on the U.S. asylum process.

The White House/Senate compromise immigration bill, negotiated during the summer of 2007, attempted to provide more resources for enforcement, establish a temporary worker program, replace the current family- and employer-based immigration system with a point system, and legalize undocumented immigrants. The bill also included the DREAM Act to legalize undocumented immigrant students and AgJOBS to legalize undocumented farmworkers. S. 1348 and S. 1639.