Arizona would bar paroled foreign nationals and pending asylum seekers from public benefits

State law would list three groups of people as ineligible for any state or local public benefit. The groups are people whose presence in the United States is not authorized by federal law, foreign nationals paroled into the U.S. by the Department of Homeland Security, and foreign nationals who plan to seek asylum and whose application has not been approved. "State or local public benefit" follows the federal definition, but leaves out commercial or professional licenses, college and other postsecondary education, public retirement benefits, and services widely available to the general population. Benefit applicants would still have to show at least one listed document, such as a passport or birth certificate, to the extent federal law allows.