by GAIC_Admin | Nov 7, 2024 | Breaking News, Legislative Efforts, Related Legislation Archive
In mid-October, the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law issued The Alien Enemies Act: Unjust, Unnecessary, and Unconsititutional, a report decrying the continued existence of the Alien Enemies Act and calling for its repeal. Katherine Ebright, who...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Legislative Highlights
Search for: Home Events History Internment Camps Real People Resources Contact To prevent possible future erosion of our civil liberties, the German American Internee Coalition believes the federal government must fully review and acknowledge its wartime civil...
by GAIC_Admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Legislative Highlights, U.S. Congressional Hearing Reports
Search for: Home Events History Internment Camps Real People Resources Contact 19 March 2009 Hearing Report—”Treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent, European Americans and Jewish Refugees during World War II” by the Subcommittee on Immigration,...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 23, 2015 | Events, Legislative Efforts, Other Milestones
The German American Internee Coalition is thrilled that on October 21, 2009, the Wartime Treatment Study Act made a huge step toward passage when it was reported favorably out of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. The bipartisan vote was 19-7,...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Events, Other Milestones
On February 4, 2009, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) issued its annual Day of Remembrance letter to Day of Remembrance participants. The concluding paragraph of the letter states: It has been over two decades since the enactment of the Civil...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Legislative Efforts, Other Milestones
Search for: Home Events History Internment Camps Real People Resources Contact The first federal legislation to pass which specifically mentioned the internment of German Americans and Latin Americans was introduced by Rep. Mike Honda as House Resolution 56. It passed...
