GOP senators introduce DREAM Act alternative

The Hill: Three Republican senators are rolling out new legislation that would create a track to legalization for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

Sens. James Lankford (Okla.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah) introduced the SUCCEED Act on Monday, pitching it as an alternative to the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, backed by Democrats.

"The DREAM Act has been floated around for a decade," Lankford told reporters. "We don't believe the DREAM Act is a conservative solution to how to be able to resolve this, but we also don't want to leave this question unanswered."

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