ACLU

The American Civil Liberties Union is the United States' largest civil rights and civil liberties advocacy organisation, founded in 1920, with roughly 4 million members and affiliates litigating in federal and state courts across all 50 states on free speech, due process and immigration questions.

Its current point of engagement is the 2026 World Cup, where the organisation has monitored the federal government's enforcement posture since acting ICE director Todd Lyons told Congress the agency would be "a key part of the overall security apparatus" and would not rule out enforcement near match venues . The concern sits inside a wider ACLU pattern: contesting the use of federal enforcement powers wherever they intersect with vulnerable workers, visitors or voters.

The organisation's role at any given moment is typically as a watchdog and litigant rather than a principal actor, which keeps most of its World Cup-era appearances at the level of monitoring rather than a headline case of its own so FAR.