5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor · Needs Congress
Fund 20,000 ERO officers and 5,000 OPLA attorneys
Printed page 143 5. Department of Homeland Security
“Congress should fund ICE for at least 20,000 ERO officers and 5,000 Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) attorneys.”
What has happened
- Partially done
Public Law 119-98 section 202 adds $31,075,000,000 for ICE personnel "including officers, agents, investigators, attorneys and support staff" and again names the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at paragraph (7). Two acts have now funded ERO officer and OPLA attorney hiring at scale, but neither sets the 20,000 and 5,000 figures the Quote asks for, and no allowlisted source shows those headcounts reached — so this stays `partial`.
- Partially done
Public Law 119-21 section 100052 appropriates $29,850,000,000 to ICE for hiring and training "officers, agents, investigators, and support staff", for performance, retention and signing bonuses, and at paragraph (11) for "hiring additional attorneys and the necessary support staff within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor". Both categories the Quote names are funded by name.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Two named numbers, neither of which Congress wrote down.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- ICE ERO officer and OPLA attorney staffing
- ID
- 319