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Obama-s-DREAM-Act-lite-runs-into-more-trouble-as-Nebraska-Arizona-go-rogueThe Christian Science Monitor :

 

 

Obama’s DREAM Act-lite runs into more trouble as Nebraska, Arizona go rogue

 

Nebraska has joined Arizona in opposing legal status for immigrants who are newly-documented under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, setting up a constitutional battle while raising tough questions about the program.

By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / August 18, 2012

Atlanta

Two days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer declared her state won’t confer driver’s licenses and other state benefits to newly-documented immigrants under Obama’s “deferred action” immigration policy, Nebraska, too, put its foot down.

Echoing Gov. Brewer, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman ® said on Saturday that Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program does not make successful applicants “legal citizens,” meaning they remain ineligible for state benefits like driver’s licenses and other services.

The deferred action plan, which took effect on Wednesday, could make as many as 1.7 illegal immigrants eligible for “deferred Scissors-32x32.png read more

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0818/Obama-s-DREAM-Act-lite-runs-into-more-trouble-as-Nebraska-Arizona-go-rogue


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