Wartime Treatment Study Act

Bill: 110-s-621
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aggression
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Concentration camps
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Detention of persons
Directories
Europe
European American ethnic groups
Executive orders
Expropriation
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign agents
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
History
International Affairs
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Jews
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Latin Americans
Law
Legislation
Military personnel
Political persecution
President and foreign policy
Public meetings
Recruiting and enlistment
Refugees
Repatriation
Right of property
Right to travel
War
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Wartime Treatment Study Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to review U.S. government wartime treatment (from September 1, 1939, through December 31, 1948) of European Americans and European Latin Americans.
 
Requires the Commission to review: (1) government actions with respect to European Americans and European Latin Americans pursuant to the Alien Enemies Acts, Presidential Proclamations 2526, 2527, 2655, 2662, 2685, Executive Orders 9066 and 9095, and related directives pertaining to the registration, arrest, exclusion, internment, exchange, or deportation of such people; (2) registration requirements, travel and property restrictions, internment, and forced abandonment of property; (3) participation by European Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces; and (4) appropriate remedies, including future protection of civil liberties during wartime.
 
Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of Jewish Refugees to review the U.S. government's refusal to allow entry into the United States of Jewish and other refugees fleeing persecution or genocide in Europe. Directs the Commission to include reviews of: (1) the rationale for such refusal, its perceived benefit, and its impact on refugees; and (2) federal refugee policy concerning those fleeing persecution or genocide.

action_date: 2007-05-04
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Wartime Treatment Study Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to review U.S. government wartime treatment (from September 1, 1939, through December 31, 1948) of European Americans and European Latin Americans.

Requires the Commission to review: (1) government actions with respect to European Americans and European Latin Americans pursuant to the Alien Enemies Acts, Presidential Proclamations 2526, 2527, 2655, 2662, 2685, Executive Orders 9066 and 9095, and related directives pertaining to the registration, arrest, exclusion, internment, exchange, or deportation of such people; (2) registration requirements, travel and property restrictions, internment, and forced abandonment of property; (3) participation by European Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces; and (4) appropriate remedies, including future protection of civil liberties during wartime.

Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of Jewish Refugees to review the U.S. government's refusal to allow entry into the United States of Jewish and other refugees fleeing persecution or genocide in Europe. Directs the Commission to include reviews of: (1) the rationale for such refusal, its perceived benefit, and its impact on refugees; and (2) federal refugee policy concerning those fleeing persecution or genocide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6608-6609)
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 135.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-62.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-62.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2050-2052)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2049-2050)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate