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Alabama Won't Publish Immigration List

Alabama has agreed to pay another $230,000 to civil rights groups that sued over Alabama's immigration law.
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Alabama has agreed to pay another $230,000 to civil rights groups that sued over Alabama's immigration law.

Alabama has agreed not to enforce a provision of the state's controversial immigration law that required the state to publish a list of people known to be unlawfully in the country.

Lawyers say they have reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit challenging what critics called a "scarlet letter list."

The 2012 law required the state to publish a list of people living in the state illegally who have been arrested.

However, Alabama told the court last year that it had no intention of publishing the list after being warned by federal officials it was a misuse of confidential information.

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit in 2013 on behalf of four people from Mexico who had been arrested for fishing without a license.

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