Arizona's Denial of Driver's Licenses To DACA Recipients Blocked by Ninth Circuit

[Another in the License To Drive: The History of the U.S. Driver's License project]

July 8, 2014 — A group of deferred action for childhood arrivals [DACA] recipients who are being denied driver's licenses in Arizona, which they allege interferes with their federal work authorization, are likely to succeed on the merits of their equal protection claim, a federal appeals court ruled July 7, ordering that a preliminary injunction be issued.

Although postponing the plaintiffs' preemption argument, the three-judge panel found that the plaintiffs—five DACA recipients and one immigrant-serving organization—sufficiently proved that the state's distinction between DACA recipients and applicants for adjustment of status or cancellation of removal violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....

http://www.bna.com/arizonas-denial-drivers-n17179891949/