Young Arizona immigrants could legally get driver's licenses after a US District court threw out a state policy barring licenses to immigrants.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's policy was struck down by US District Judge David Campbell, a ruling which takes effect on Monday. The judge's decision was to carry out orders by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals handed down in July allowing driver's licenses for immigrants.

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One of the lawyers who advocated a change in Arizona's policy said the court decision junks a measure that made it hard for young immigrants to go about daily activities like going to the store and their school and keep a job.

The court ruling did not sit well with Brewer who argued that issuing driver's licenses is a matter for state and not a concern for the federal government or the judiciary.

The governor's office did say the state would follow the ruling, even as Brewer pledge to challenge the case. She has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look into her appeal of the 9th Circuit ruling.

The Arizona policy to deny the licenses was a reaction to the Obama administration's order two years ago not to deport thousands of illegal immigrants.

The Obama measure applied to immigrants younger than 30 who set foot on the US before they turned 16 and who have stayed in the country for at least five years, The immigrants must also be studying or have graduated from a GED program or high school, or have served in the military. Immigrants also are allowed to seek a two-year renewable work permit.

Brewer came out with an executive order in the same year telling state agencies to bar immigrants under Obama's program from getting driver's licenses and other public benefits.

The US president issued last month an expanded executive order on immigration that takes away the risks of deportation from millions of illegal immigrants.

Arizona and 23 other US states challenged Obama's order in a federal case, alleging he acted in a manner that will worsen the humanitarian crisis along the southern U.S. border.