; purpose (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) From 1929 through 1941, Federal, State, and local Government authorities and certain private sector entities throughout the United States undertook an aggressive program to forcibly remove individuals of Mexican ancestry from the United States. (2) As many as 1,200,000 individuals of Mexican ancestry who were United States citizens were forcibly removed to Mexico. (3) These men, women, and children were removed outside the United States in response to public pressure to curtail the employment of Mexican-Americans, most of whom were United States citizens or residing legally in the United States, during the Depression. (4) Massive raids were conducted on Mexican-American communities, and many of the people who were removed were never able to return to the United States, their country of birth. (5) These raids targeted individuals of Mexican ancestry, even when such individuals were United States citizens or permanent legal residents. (6) These raids also separated such United States citizens and permanent legal residents from their families and deprived them of their livelihoods and constitutional rights. (7) No official inquiry into this matter has been made. (b) Purpose It is the purpose of this Act to establish a fact finding commission to determine whether United States citizens and permanent legal residents were forcibly removed to Mexico from 1929 to 1941 in violation of law as a result of past directives of Federal, State and local governments and the impact of such removal on those individuals, their families, and the Mexican-American community in the United States, and to recommend appropriate remedies. 3. Establishment of Commission There is established a commission to be known as the Commission on the Removal of Mexican-Americans to Mexico . 4. Duties of the Commission The Commission shall— (1) review the facts and circumstances surrounding the removal of certain United States citizens and permanent legal residents to Mexico from 1929 to 1941, and