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PHOENIX -- 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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    No more war wrote...
    A HUGE "BOOOO" TO THE HOUSE!
    March 7, 2013 3:51 pm
    ----> A HUGE "BOOOO" TO THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE! Us Dems are going to keep fighting on! Hell Yesss!~
    --> Listen to: 1480 AM, KPHX!...The Valley's Progressive Talk Radio for Phoenix!
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    voiceofreality wrote...
    The House just reduced
    March 7, 2013 4:24 pm
    the chance you getting hit by an uninsured motorist . Keep it up !
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    Truth_hurtz wrote...
    Responsible immigrant youth should
    March 7, 2013 4:24 pm
    Have a drivers license of some type to get around town with. What I DO disagree with is this ID granting any of the privileges of a citizen issued ID. If one were to be issued, it should look NOTHING like a citizen's state issued ID or garner any voting privileges. Simply as an ID for getting around, nothing more.
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    Stacy1 wrote...
    Licenses for Deam Act youths
    March 7, 2013 4:58 pm
    Common people, this is Arizona, one of the most biggoted states in the country. Dirty politics and nasty legisltions daily, a constant fight for HUMAN RIGHTS.
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    az83 wrote...
    No licences, no...
    March 7, 2013 5:20 pm
    amnesty, just a bus ticket out of the country. Go to Russia and tell them about your rights. This is a consequence of their parents breaking the law in the first place. Stop the invasion. Amnesty will not happen again. And unless going to the back of the line means leaving the country it means nothing to the legal applicants waiting for entry.
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    Steve wrote...
    Obama took it upon himself to create a
    March 7, 2013 6:15 pm
    seperate class of citizens in my opinion illegally and the State should stand by their convictions and not give them DL's or ID's. The families should return to their home Countries which the Dems are ignorning.
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    Steve wrote...
    Stacy 1 thanks for the
    March 7, 2013 6:17 pm
    well versed and informatvie post. As usual we get to see someone with no real idea of what they are doing here, start calling people bigots and haters because their ideology is not the same as yours.
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    1redcav wrote...
    Great job,
    March 7, 2013 6:44 pm
    AZ House! NO licenses for criminal ilegal invaders! Stick it to these dem lib progressive goons!
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    yrreta wrote...
    Stacy 1, Micho's prodigy,
    March 7, 2013 8:35 pm
    badmouths the State, the State Government, and the people of Arizona, and yet continues to live here. Moron. Correction, liberal moron.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Backwards Arizona fails to see the
    March 7, 2013 11:48 pm
    contradiction in denying one group of deferred action status individuals a licenses, while at the exact same time it is issuing licenses to thousands of other deferred action status individuals. The courts will see this inconsistency, recognize that Arizona is failing to provide equal protection under the law, and correct that error.

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