Numbers USA has a useful list of Senators who have committed to vote against the amnesty du jour, the DREAM Act, which Dick Durbin has offered as Amendment 2237 to the defense authorization bill. The list of those who haven’t yet committed to vote no (or who are already in the yes column) is here. The measure’s prospects don’t seem that good though — even “Amnesty Mel” Martinez is having doubts.

And, just as the solons of the world’s greatest deliberative body debate the latest attempt to gut America’s immigration laws, a new Zogby poll finds that the majority of Americans want more restrictive immigration policies, with immigration far and away the number-one domestic security issue. But President Bush’s gift to the GOP is that respondents actually had more confidence in the Democrats to deal with the problem; even among Republicans, one-third had no confidence that either party was better on the issue.