among its members. The term of office of each shall be 
for the life of the European American Commission. 
(h) COMPENSATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Members of the European 
American Commission shall serve without pay. 
(2) REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES.—All mem-
bers of the European American Commission shall be 
reimbursed for reasonable travel and subsistence, 
and other reasonable and necessary expenses in-
curred by them in the performance of their duties. 
SEC. 102. DUTIES OF THE EUROPEAN AMERICAN COMMIS-
SION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall be the duty of the Euro-
pean American Commission to review the United States 
Government’s wartime treatment of European Americans 
and European Latin Americans as provided in subsection 
(b). 
(b) SCOPE OF REVIEW.—The European American 
Commission’s review shall include the following: 
(1) A comprehensive review of the facts and cir-
cumstances surrounding United States Government 
actions during World War II with respect to Euro-
pean Americans and European Latin Americans 
pursuant to the Alien Enemies Acts (50 U.S.C. 21 
et seq.), Presidential Proclamations 2526, 2527, 
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2655, 2662, and 2685, Executive Orders 9066 and 
9095, and any directive of the United States Gov-
ernment pursuant to such law, proclamations, or ex-
ecutive orders respecting the registration, arrest, ex-
clusion, internment, exchange, or deportation of Eu-
ropean Americans and European Latin Americans. 
This review shall include an assessment of the un-
derlying rationale of the United States Government’s 
decision to develop related programs and policies, 
the information the United States Government re-
ceived or acquired suggesting the related programs 
and policies were necessary, the perceived benefit of 
enacting such programs and policies, and the imme-
diate and long-term impact of such programs and 
policies on European Americans and European 
Latin Americans and their communities. 
(2) A comprehensive review of United States 
Government action during World War II with re-
spect to European Americans and European Latin 
Americans pursuant to the Alien Enemies Acts (50 
U.S.C. 21 et seq.), Presidential Proclamations 2526, 
2527, 2655, 2662, and 2685, Executive Orders 
9066 and 9095, and any directive of the United 
States Government pursuant to such law, proclama-
tions, or executive orders, including registration re-
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quirements, travel and property restrictions, estab-
lishment of restricted areas, raids, arrests, intern-
ment, exclusion, policies relating to the families and 
property that excludees and internees were forced to 
abandon, internee employment by American compa-
nies (including a list of such companies and the 
terms and type of employment), exchange, repatri-
ation, and deportation, and the immediate and long- 
term effect of such actions, particularly internment, 
on the lives of those affected. This review shall in-
clude a list of— 
(A) all temporary detention and long-term 
internment facilities in the United States and 
Latin American nations that were used to de-
tain or intern European Americans and Euro-
pean Latin Americans during World War II (in 
this paragraph referred to as ‘‘World War II 
detention facilities’’); 
(B) the names of European Americans and 
European Latin Americans who died while in 
World War II detention facilities and where 
they were buried; 
(C) the names of children of European 
Americans and European Latin Americans who 
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were born in World War II detention facilities 
and where they were born; and 
(D) the nations from which European 
Latin Americans were brought to the United 
States, the ships that transported them to the 
United States and their departure and disem-
barkation ports, the locations where European 
Americans and European Latin Americans were 
exchanged for persons held in European Axis 
nations, and the ships that transported them to 
Europe and their departure and disembarkation 
ports. 
(3) A brief review of the participation by Euro-
pean Americans in the United States Armed Forces 
including the participation of European Americans 
whose families were excluded, interned, repatriated, 
or exchanged. 
(4) A recommendation of appropriate remedies, 
including how civil liberties can be protected during 
war, or an actual, attempted, or threatened invasion 
or incursion, an assessment of the continued viabil-
ity of the Alien Enemies Acts (50 U.S.C. 21 et seq.), 
and public education programs related to the United 
States Government’s wartime treatment of European 
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