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This week the Iowa Department of Transportation that young immigrants who came to the country as children鈥攐r 鈥淒REAMers鈥濃�攚ill be eligible for driver鈥檚 licenses鈥攔eversing the state鈥檚 decision a month ago to ban them from the roads. The decision affects an estimated 5,000 DREAMers benefiting from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (鈥淒ACA鈥�) program, which permits certain young immigrants to remain in the country and apply for work permits on a two-year, renewable basis.

Iowa officials relied on issued by the federal government confirming that DACA recipients are legally authorized to be present in the country during the two-year period. This guidance matters because many states limit driver鈥檚 licenses to immigrants who can show they are 鈥渁uthorized鈥� or 鈥渓egally present鈥� in the country. The guidance makes clear that the federal government has permitted DACA recipients to stay in the United States. Thus, as Iowa officials recognized, states have no business denying them driver鈥檚 licenses on the grounds that they somehow aren鈥檛 allowed to be here.

Iowa joins the , which have recognized the significance of the DACA program and decided to let the DREAMers drive. To date, only a small minority of states鈥擜rizona, Michigan, and Nebraska鈥攈ave chosen the opposite path, opting to marginalize, rather than welcome, its immigrant youth.

As detailed in our lawsuits in Arizona and Michigan, these policies impose heavy restrictions on tens of thousands of DREAMers. As our client in Michigan, Javier Contreras, explains, a drivers鈥� license is a prerequisite for 鈥渁 normal American life.鈥� Javier, a national honors student who will graduate from high school this spring, needs to drive in order to get to college, to work and support himself and his family, and to live his American dream. We need to support individuals like Javier and the thousands of other talented young immigrants who have grown up in this country and want to contribute to their communities鈥攁nd not make it impossible to go about their daily lives.

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We hope that the remaining states with driver鈥檚 license bans will follow Iowa鈥檚 lead and stop discriminating against our immigrant youth. But either way, the 老澳门开奖结果 stands ready to defend the rights of DREAMers everywhere.

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