Thursday, June 07, 2007

Probe of WWII Internment of Italian Americans and German Americans, Passes Senate

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The U.S. Senate passed an amendment that would establish  Two commissions: One would would probe the Internment of German Americans and Italian Americans, and the involuntary exchange of some of those internees for Americans held by Axis nations.

The Second would  examine the plight of European Jews who attempted to reach the United States during WWII;


The legislation was originally slated to stand alone as the Wartime Treatment Study Act, but Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is Jewish,,a Republican senator exercised his right to put an anonymous hold on it.

 Ultimately  Feingold (D-Wis.), tacked it on to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, and it passed Tuesday 67-26.

 

It took 50+ years to get the Congress to open up Secret files and admit to "The Storia Segreta". It then took a Resolution from Congress and an Apology from President Clinton. This Legislation will allow a more complete Investigation and Report

 

 

Senate passes bill on WWII refugees

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA

June 6, 2007

 

The U.S. Senate passed an amendment that would establish a commission to investigate the plight of Jewish refugees in the United States during World War II.

The legislation proposes two commissions: One would examine the plight of European Jews who attempted to reach the United States; the other would probe the internment of German Americans and Italian Americans, and the involuntary exchange of some of those internees for Americans held by Axis nations.

The legislation was originally slated to stand alone as the Wartime Treatment Study Act, but a Republican senator exercised his or her right to put an anonymous hold on it.

Ultimately Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is Jewish, tacked it on to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, and it passed Tuesday 67-26. All the votes against were by Republicans; 16 from the party voted for the amendment.

The amendment does not provide reparations for families of the victims and is ai med only at looking into matters that have never been formally considered by Congress.

It was sponsored by Feingold, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii).

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102282.html

 

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