Bloomberg Politics
By Greg Stohr
March 19, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to let Arizona deny driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants who are protected from deportation under a program started by President Barack Obama.
For the second time in recent weeks, the justices steered clear of a fight over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. In late February the court said it wouldn’t immediately consider President Donald Trump’s bid to rescind the program, which shields 700,000 young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as minors.
The latest rejection comes in a clash that dates back to 2012, when Obama announced the program and Arizona’s then-governor, Jan Brewer, quickly moved to block beneficiaries from qualifying for a driver’s license.
Brewer contended Arizona was enforcing its longstanding policy of issuing licenses only to people who can prove they are in the country legally.
A group of DACA recipients challenged the policy. A federal appeals court ruled in their favor, saying U.S. immigration law bars states from making distinctions among different classes of non-citizens.
Arizona would have been the only state to bar DACA recipients from getting driver’s licenses. Nebraska rescinded a similar policy in 2015.
The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court not to hear the appeal, saying the questions in the case “have been overtaken by events.”
The case is Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act Coalition, 16-1180.
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