The Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the state of Arizona from denying immigrants that were granted legal status in 2012 from getting their driver's licenses.

According to Reuters, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said that the legal status granted to immigrants by President Barack Obama two years ago had no legal basis and requested for them to not have driver's licenses.

After the top court barred Arizona from holding legal immigrants' rights, the state is now issued to allow nearly 20,000 immigrants to apply for driver's licenses. All of them were supposed to be eligible ever since Obama's policy.

"This is going to open the door for people to begin living a more normal life," Phoenix-based activist Dulce Matuz told Reuters.

"I've done everything I could to belong to this country," Chavarria, a 21-year-old immigrant, said. "It wasn't fair that I wasn't able to drive. Now that's all changed."

Chavarria opened a marketing company in the Phoenix area and was also a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

Gov. Brewer, a Republican, issued an executive order to deny thousands of young immigrants protected from deportation from getting driver's licenses, the AP reported.  

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the judge to bar Brewer's enforcement. Arizona's governor then went to put a hold on the 9th Circuit Court ruling until the Supreme Court lifted it.

Star Tribune reported that the court suggested Brewer's order was intended to express hostility toward the immigrants.

Nebraska is the only other state known to have made similar decisions as Brewer on immigrant driver's licenses.

Andrew Wilder, spokesman to Brewer, said the state will continue to pursue an appeal on the 9th Circuit Court ruling. It is unknown if the Supreme Court will hear the appeal next year.

Obama's policy for young immigrants says that individuals who have come to the United States before the age of 16 and were under the age of 31 by June 15, 2012 were granted legal status.

The policy, called "Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals," received a lot of backlash from Republicans, as did Obama's recent immigration executive order.