TPS extended to Haitians

Ten House Republicans break with Trump to extend temporary protected status for Haitians

Ten House Republicans crossed party lines Thursday to join Democrats and one independent in passing legislation that would extend temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitian nationals, a direct rebuke of the Trump administration's effort to end the program and resume deportations to Haiti.

The measure passed 224-204, Fox News Digital reported, though it faces long odds in the Republican-led Senate and a near-certain presidential veto.

The vote marked one of the most visible breaks between GOP lawmakers and the White House on immigration policy this Congress. It came after Democrats, led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, used a procedural tool known as a discharge petition to force the bill to the House floor, bypassing Republican leadership entirely. The petition needed 218 signatures, and enough Republicans signed on to clear that threshold.

Rep. Laura Gillen, a New York Democrat, sponsored the resolution on the floor. But the story is less about what Democrats did, they were expected to support the measure, and more about the ten Republicans who chose to stand with them against their own president's stated immigration priorities.

But the 224 that voted to extend TPS also sidestep a harder question: whether a program designed as temporary relief has become, in practice, a permanent residency track that Congress never voted to create. That is precisely the concern the Trump administration has raised.

As Andy Biggs said, "Members of Congress have a sacred and exclusive duty to our American constituents, not to foreign nationals."

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