When Congress returns to D.C. this week from its two-week recess, the House is expected to vote on a bill to restore Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. The discharge petition forcing a vote on the bill reached the 218-signature threshold in late March, after four Republicans signed the petition.
- Discharge Petition No. 15 was filed on January 22 by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), forcing the House to vote on H.R. 1698, which would require DHS to designate TPS for Haiti.
- The April vote on the discharge petition will be timely as the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in late April in a case challenging the terminations of TPS for Haiti and Syria.
By the numbers: The Trump administration’s attempts to end TPS for Haiti have put around 350,000 Haitians living and working in the US at risk of deportation.
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