Congress is now trying to pass legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants from deportation.
Today, the House of Representatives advanced a bill that would re-instate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian migrants for three more years.
The final vote was 219-209, with six Republicans siding with Democrats to advance the bill.
Those six were:
- Maria Elvira Salazar – Florida
- Don Bacon – Nebraska
- Brian Fitzpatrick – Pennsylvania
- Carlos Gimenez – Florida
- Mike Lawler – New York
- Nicole Malliotakis – New York
Here are the full details:
BREAKING: Six House Republicans just joined Democrats to PROTECT HAITIAN MIGRANTS, 219-209
Are you KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW!?
This would give Haitians temporary protected status — a category in which one of them KlLLED that woman in Florida at a gas station
Per Tim Burchett: “A Democrat motion to provide for consideration that legal immigrants status to Haitians.”
“It provides legal immigrants status to Haitians who are already in the United States. So you have illegal Haitians here and we’re going to allow them to stay. And [several] Republicans, look them up, who they were.”
“You can pretty much guess, but go ahead and look them up. Anyway, unbelievable. This is one time I’m glad for an inaction in the Senate.”
“That’s what we’ve become. We gotta, we gotta clean this mess up up here.”
REPUBLICAN “YEAs”:
– Salazar
– Bacon
– Fitzpatrick
– Gimenez
– Lawler
– MalliotakisIt’s not final passage, but this is the motion moving forward.
Under President Trump’s orders, the Department of Homeland Security has been ending TPS for many groups of migrants — including those from Venezuela and Afghanistan.
Back in June, it was announced that TPS would also be canceled for Haitians. However, rogue judges have blocked that order from going into effect.
Hellbound and Down 