The FY2027 President's Budget requests $468.8M for Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, within Homeland Security's Operations and Support account. That is up 6.2% on the FY2026 figure of $441.5M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $441.5M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $441.5M |
| FY2027 | request | $468.8M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA): This PPA provides funding for ICE OPLA attorneys who exclusively represent the U.S. Government in exclusion, deportation, bond, and removal proceedings before the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). This PPA also supports OPLA attorneys who provide legal advice to ICE programs and offices on a range of immigration, customs, criminal laws and policies, labor and employment law, commercial and administrative law, ethics standards, and defend the operational authorities and decisions of ICE officers and agents in Federal courts. Support personnel provide administrative and legal assistance, including paperwork- intensive removal proceedings before EOIR. OPLA is organized into four programmatic portfolios: Enforcement and Litigation, Field Legal Operations, General and Administrative Law, and Chief of Staff.
Extracted from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, p. 5. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
28 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70CTD026FC0000005 last action FY2026 | FCN, INC. | Medium confidence | $4.1M |
| 70CTD021FC0000085 last action FY2023 | DELL FEDERAL SYSTEMS L.P | Medium confidence | $1.9M |
| 47PF0023F0838 last action FY2025 | ARTISAN CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES INC | Medium confidence | $1.2M |
| 70CMSD26FR0000010 last action FY2026 | NEW TECH SOLUTIONS, INC. | Medium confidence | $1.1M |
| 47PK0520C0010 last action FY2022 | FASONE CONSTRUCTION, INC. | Medium confidence | $1.1M |
| 70CMSD25FC0000045 last action FY2025 | FCN, INC. | Medium confidence | $0.9M |
| 70CMSD25FC0000028 last action FY2025 | FCN, INC. | Medium confidence | $0.6M |
| 70CMSD26FR0000017 last action FY2026 | OPTIVOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | Medium confidence | $0.4M |
Showing 8 of 28 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.
Confidence mix · 28 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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