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  • The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers...
    The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
  • A judge has refused to halt Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's policy denying driver's licenses for young immigrants who received work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.
    A judge has refused to halt Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's policy denying driver's licenses for young immigrants who received work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.
  • Senators working on a bipartisan immigration bill have defeated an effort to speed up a new workplace identity verification system.
    A bipartisan group of House members announced a deal Thursday on sweeping immigration legislation, a breakthrough that could boost chances for one of President Barack Obama's top second-term priorities.

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona House has turned back an effort by Democrats to force the state to issue driver's licenses to young immigrants who have gotten work permits under a new Obama administration policy.

The effort to amend a transportation bill to include the provision failed on a 23-35 vote Thursday. The effort was mostly symbolic since Republicans control the chamber.

Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order last year barring the state from issuing licenses to those granted so-called "deferred action from deportation." Immigrant right advocates have sued in federal court to get the order overturned.

Rep. Martin Quezada said the amendment clarified current state law to specifically say those immigrants qualified for licenses as other given work permits do.

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