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Arizona's new 'policy change' will deny driver's licenses to more immigrants

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09-18-2013, 01:17 AM
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Unfortunately, this may also apply to those dreamers deferred before DACA. Brewer's way out of "discriminating dreamers" is to stop giving DLs to all deferred immigrants. SMH

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PHOENIX - Lawyers for the state told a federal appeals court Tuesday that Arizona will stop issuing driver's licenses to all people who receive deportation deferrals from the federal government, not just young immigrants given work permits under a policy championed by President Barack Obama.

The policy change revealed in a court filing comes months after a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Arizona's policy of denying licenses to young people given deferrals was likely discriminatory. That's because some immigrants with similarly issued work permits get driver's licenses yet those young immigrants protected under Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can't. They are often called "dreamers," a reference to the DREAM Act, a proposed law that would give legal status to people illegally brought to the U.S. as children.

Immigrant rights activists sued Arizona over the policy. Judge David Campbell in May rejected their argument that the policy was unconstitutional but noted the probable discrimination. Campbell refused to block the policy, and activists appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona said Gov. Jan Brewer was making the policy change just to get out from under the lawsuit, to the detriment of other immigrants given work permits under deferred action policies. They include human trafficking victims, widows and victims of domestic violence.

"The judge issued a ruling months ago saying they were singling out dreamers, and this is her response," said the ACLU's Alessandra Soler. "I think it's shameful, I think it's vindictive, I think it's politically motivated."

Brewer's spokesman, Andrew Wilder, called the action a "policy change."

"Recipients of regular deferred action and deferred enforced departure, similar to DACA, cannot demonstrate authorized presence under federal law," Wilder wrote in an email.

Soler said, "Our position is the policy is still discriminatory, it's still unlawful and we'll be arguing that in court."

The controversy over Arizona's driver's license policy started after the Obama administration took administrative steps to shield thousands of young immigrants from deportation last summer. Applicants for the deferment program must have come to the U.S. before they turned 16, be younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, be in school or have graduated from high school or a GED program, or have served in the military. They also were allowed to apply for a two-year renewable work permit.
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09-18-2013, 02:56 AM
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When I become a doctor, I am not letting even a cent of my money go to this bullshit of a state. If I end up living in New Mexico and need to go to California, I'll make sure to go around Arizona so that I won't pay any gas money, restaurant money, or hotel money to these fucks. If there's a medical convention in Arizona, fuck 'em. I'm staying home. If the plane I'm riding in is rerouted to Phoenix, and I'm forced to spend a night there, I'm sleeping in the Airport and waiting until I'm on the plane to buy something to eat.

A good friend of mine is doing his Ph.D, and his thing is the water conservation policy in Arizona. His current dissertation is arguing that, decreasing waterfall coupled with Colorado/California being stingy with its water and rapid population expansion in Phoenix, the state will undergo a "violent economic turnover" as the water availability and population water consumption coincides - water policy will rapidly become near-draconic, and that will kill property values, which will kill the state economy and make AZ an economic and literal wasteland.

God, I hope he's right.
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Yeah, not sure why anyone wants to stay in Arizona anyways, it should be given to Mexico and free us from that stupid state
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I know it's not easy but if you have DACA, you should really consider moving out of that shithole of a state with your family. Why are you there? You can get job anywhere. Who knows how long DACA will be around so do it now while you have protection. If your mom is cleaning houses there, she can clean houses in better neighborhoods in California.
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I know it's not easy but if you have DACA, you should really consider moving out of that shithole of a state with your family. Why are you there? You can get job anywhere. Who knows how long DACA will be around so do it now while you have protection. If your mom is cleaning houses there, she can clean houses in better neighborhoods in California.
california ? , 5 bucks a gallon of gass ? yeah right lol so easy for anybody to say , the clearer option maybe new mexico , but still , it aint easy ..
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Waiting for Witch Brewer to die..


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I'd rather live in a sewer than to visit that shit hole for a minute
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I'd rather live in a sewer than to visit that shit hole for a minute
I live in this shithole...
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I live in this shithole...
i do too ...
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I live here too. This state is not a shithole....it's just Brewer over-using her power to make our community a living hell. Before her, it wasn't bad at all. Take her out of the equation and everything will be different. Believe me.
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