Alabama legislature adds provision to its immigration law despite ...

The Alabama legislature on Wednesday tinkered with the state?s controversial immigration law, keeping certain portions intact and adding a new provision that would require Homeland Security to publish the names of undocumented immigrants who appear in court, even if they are eventually acquitted of the crime, reports Bryan Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser. The bill kept in place the immigration measure that has generated the most controversy: the requirement that police verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.

The U.S. Justice Department last year filed suit against Alabama over its immigration law. Politico's Tim Mak provides the legal lay-of-the-land since: "In October, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked parts of the law that would require schools to verify the immigration status of students. The U.S. Supreme Court is currently waiting to rule on a case challenging a similar immigration law in Arizona. That case was heard in April. It was not immediately clear what the legal impact of the tweaks to Alabama?s law will be in regard to the legal action underway against the state."

The newly revised bill now goes to Republican Gov. Robert Bentley to sign.

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