I am not sure what you're trying to achieve here other than to win this debate. The immigration lawyers in the article don't have solid numbers, but they are certain that the majority of EAD holders don't have 'status' because they're the ones handling the cases.

Let me repeat myself. If AZ really requires 'status' rather than 'lawful presence', then they should refuse EAD as primary document because aliens with 'status' have either green cards or passports+visas+I94 to prove it. That is, if it's legal for states to refuse to recognize federally defined 'lawful presence'.

They want to give only driver's licenses to EAD holders with status? They need to also refuse DL to at least:
- A3
- A4
- A5
- A10
- A11
- A12
- C8
- C10
- C11
- C14 (Deferred Action other than DACA)
- C18
- C19

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx...0.1.2.54.2.1.1