Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), along with several civil rights legacy organizations, delivered a letter to Congress urging U.S. Senators to oppose any effort to advance appropriations bills related to the funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The unconscionable abuses of DHS oversight and the egregious conduct of DHS’ enforcement operations have obliterated public trust in the department. LDF and the partner organizations firmly requested that Congress rein in the rogue, paramilitary force that has been operating beyond the constraints of the law without any accountability with crucial restrictions to DHS’ operations before voting on any funding for the department.
Read the full letter here.
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Founded in 1940, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is the nation’s first civil rights legal organization. LDF has been completely separate from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1957, though it was founded under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall while he was at the NAACP. LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) is a division of LDF that undertakes innovative research and houses LDF’s archive. In all media attributions, please refer to us as the Legal Defense Fund or LDF (do not include NAACP) and refer to the Institute as LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute or TMI.
