High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Italian American internment refers to the internment of non-citizen Italians in the United States during World War II. Unlike the Japanese Americans who were interned during the war, they have never received reparations. However, unlike Japanese-Americans, who were rounded up whether citizens or not, only non-citizen Italians were rounded up. In 2010, the California Legislature passed a resolution apologizing for the mistreatment of Italian residents.