Federal judge blocks Arizona ban on driver's licenses for young immigrants
Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 12:11AM
TheSpook

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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona [official website] on Thursday made permanent an injunction that requires the state to issue driver's licenses to immigrants who were brought illegally to the US as children. The young people, known as Dreamers [Huffington Post report], were granted a deferral of deportation by President Barack Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) [materials] program. Under the Arizona law, the Dreamers were prohibited from acquiring driver's license

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