After Democrat Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) took to X to crow about her victory (with the help of 10 Republicans) in gaining passage of the discharge petition to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian migrants, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) quote-tweeted her video and then let her know what time it was.
This is dead on arrival in the Senate.
— Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) April 17, 2026
Temporary Protected Status is just that: temporary. Beyond that, 91% of all Haitian TPS holders entered the country illegally.
In the last election, the American people rejected mass migration policies that effectively grant amnesty to… https://t.co/eim5EUE3AA
This is dead on arrival in the Senate.
Temporary Protected Status is just that: temporary. Beyond that, 91% of all Haitian TPS holders entered the country illegally.
In the last election, the American people rejected mass migration policies that effectively grant amnesty to illegal aliens. It’s past time to put our own citizens FIRST.
"Dead on arrival" means it probably will not even reach the Senate floor for a vote. Even if it does, I know for a fact that Britt, along with Alabama's senior Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, will be "NO" votes. From the chatter on X, several other Republican senators have also lodged their displeasure at the rogue House vote.
Unlike the squishy Republican Reps. Mike Carey (OH-15) and Mike Turner (OH-10), who apparently forgot about the mess TPS Haitians helped create in the Ohio hamlet of Springfield and voted with Pressley to pass the discharge petition, Alabama state and U.S. representatives did not forget the upset that roiled the state in 2024. TPS Haitians overran several small communities, caused automobile accidents and property damage, and were bused in en masse to work at a local chicken processing plant when Alabamians were seeking work. During that time, in my own research at a workforce center, I interviewed a white male who had experience with poultry processing and wanted to get an interview. He said that he had contacted the processing plant three times, and they never followed up with him. Many of these 330,000 TPS Haitians, whom President Donald Trump slated for repatriation, continue to live and work in the state, and thanks to Pressley and her ilk, they think they have no worries.
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Other senators have taken to X to also express their displeasure over the House vote, and pledged to block this latest version of backdoor amnesty.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was also a hard "NO" on entertaining the House bill.
This is how a nation loses control of its immigration system: not all at once, but through endless “temporary” exceptions.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 16, 2026
Haitians got 18-months of TPS for a 2010 Earthquake. Now some want it to be a conveyor belt to de facto amnesty.
I will fight to stop this in the Senate. https://t.co/MSSdZSU5S7
As is Tennessee's Senator Marsha Blackburn.
And it will die in the Senate. As long as I have a say, I will make sure this resolution never sees the light of day. https://t.co/C0pN9cDl0I
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) April 17, 2026
And Ohio's Republican Senator Bernie Moreno.
It’s called TEMPORARY protected status (TPS) for a reason.
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) April 17, 2026
The Senate will not expand TPS. The House’s bill is an insult to the millions of people patiently waiting in line & a tacit approval of Biden’s border invasion where TPS became de facto amnesty. Republicans will not…
It’s called TEMPORARY protected status (TPS) for a reason.
The Senate will not expand TPS. The House’s bill is an insult to the millions of people patiently waiting in line & a tacit approval of Biden’s border invasion where TPS became de facto amnesty. Republicans will not continue to allow wage suppressing illegal migration to destroy working Americans with high prices, healthcare shortages, housing scarcity, and degradation of our social safety nets.
As my colleagues streiff wrote:
There is no good reason anyone should vote to create some 330,000 legal residents who arrived here "temporarily," establish a precedent of making TPS permanent, and supercharge the TPS programs for other Third World crapholes.
President Donald Trump's directive to remove TPS protections, which was blocked by yet another activist judge (several, actually), is before the Supreme Court, and oral arguments are slated for April 29. So, this entire House theater was just another way to stick it to Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump.
Re the 7 GOP members of the house who are going to vote on a bill to extend TPS for Haiti, this is a vote for their re-election in their districts.
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 16, 2026
The bill will never get a vote in the Senate, and Trump would veto it even if it did and it passed.
The Supreme Court is going to…
Re the 7 GOP members of the house who are going to vote on a bill to extend TPS for Haiti, this is a vote for their re-election in their districts.
The bill will never get a vote in the Senate, and Trump would veto it even if it did and it passed.
The Supreme Court is going to hear the TPS termination cases on 4/29, and I don't think the opinion will be one of the last ones to come out in late June.
I expect it will be 7-2 or 8-1, likely on jurisdictional grounds that Congress cut-off the jurisdiction of District Courts to consider the claims raised.
The House vote is meaningless.
For the Republicans that sided with this nonsense, good luck with that. Just ask Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX-02), who assumed he was bulletproof, until he wasn't. From the X posts by the Republican 10 who crossed the aisle, they claimed that they had to protect these poor, put-upon Haitians over the wishes of their citizen constituents, most of whom voted overwhelmingly to send them back home. They are getting pushback, and some of them are doubling down. They may not realize it now, but they're not doing themselves any favors.
🚨 BREAKING: House just passed a 3-year extension of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians by vote of 224-204.
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) April 16, 2026
10 "Republicans" + 1 Independent joined Democrats to ram it through.
Democrats broke out in celebration as it passed!
The RINOs who crossed the aisle:… pic.twitter.com/jFPEOtrSfe
BREAKING: House just passed a 3-year extension of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians by vote of 224-204.
10 "Republicans" + 1 Independent joined Democrats to ram it through.
Democrats broke out in celebration as it passed!
The RINOs who crossed the aisle:
- Maria Salazar (R-FL)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Carlos Gimenez (R-FL)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
- Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
- Mike Lawler (R-NY)
- Mike Turner (R-OH)
- Rich McCormick (R-GA)
- Mike Carey (R-OH)
- Kevin Kiley (I-CA)
Trump already moved to end TPS for Haiti (conditions improved).
Why are "Republicans" blocking mass deportations and handing Democrats a win?
There is an anti-incumbent fervor running through the electorate, so consider them fair game for plucking. As this happens, their Republican Senate colleagues will simply kick their feet up and sip on some sweet tea.
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