<P> On April 10, 1946, Truman issued Presidential Proclamation 2685, titled "Removal of Alien Enemies", citing the revised Alien Enemies Act (50 U.S.C. 21--24) as to its provision for the "removal from the United States of alien enemies in the interest of the public safety". Truman proclaimed regulations that were in addition to and supplemented other "regulations affecting the restraint and removal of alien enemies". As to alien enemies who had been brought into the continental United States from Latin America after December 1941, the proclamation gave the Secretary of State authority to decide if their presence was "prejudicial to the future security or welfare of the Americas", and to make regulations for their removal . 30 days was set as the reasonable time for them to "effect the recovery, disposal, and removal of (their) goods and effects, and for (their) departure ." </P> <P> In 1947 New York's Ellis Island continued to incarcerate hundreds of ethnic Germans . Fort Lincoln was a large internment camp still holding internees in North Dakota . North Dakota was represented by controversial Senator William "Wild Bill" Langer . Langer introduced a bill (S. 1749) "for the relief of all persons detained as enemy aliens", and directing the US Attorney General to cancel "outstanding warrants of arrest, removal, or deportation" for many German aliens still interned, listing many by name, and all of those detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was under the Department of Justice (DOJ). It directed the INS not to issue any more warrants or orders, if their only basis was the original warrants of arrest . The bill never passed . The Attorney General gave up plenary jurisdiction over the last internee on Ellis Island late in 1948 . </P> <P> In Ludecke v. Watkins (1948), the Supreme Court interpreted the time of release under the Alien Enemies Act . German alien Kurt G.W. Ludecke was detained in 1941, under Proclamation 2526 . and continued to be held after cessation of hostilities . In 1947, Ludecke petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to order his release, after the Attorney General ordered him deported . The court ruled 5--4 to release Ludecke, but also found that the Alien Enemies Act allowed for detainment beyond the time hostilities ceased, until an actual treaty was signed with the hostile nation or government . </P> <P> In 1988, President Reagan and the 100th Congress introduced the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, whose purpose amongst others was to acknowledge and apologize for actions of the US against individuals of Japanese ancestry during World War II . The statement from Congress agreed with the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, that "a grave injustice was done to both citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese...without adequate security reasons and without any acts of espionage or sabotage documented by the Commission, and were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership ." </P>

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