Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed an executive order Wednesday that denies state benefits to the illegal immigrants brought to the country as children given temporary permanent resident status under a DREAM-act like program created by President Obama.
KTAR reports Brewer’s order prevents those given permanent residency status under the Obama administration program “from receiving public benefits, a driver’s license or a state identification card.”
The order closed by saying that the more than 80,000 Deferred Action recipients, should the action be permitted to continue without intervention, would have “significant and lasting impacts on the Arizona budget, its health care system and additional public benefits that Arizona taxpayers fund.”
The Brewer order comes on the first day Obama’s DREAM-like program goes into effect.
