By Nate Raymond
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives offered a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda on Thursday as a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to vote to extend temporary protections for 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.
The House voted 224-204 in favor of legislation allowing Haitians to remain eligible for Temporary Protected Status for three years after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminated the humanitarian protections they had been granted.
The legislation now heads to the Republican-led U.S. Senate, where its fate is uncertain.
But the vote showed some Republicans were ready to break with the White House on the issue as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares this month to weigh whether to allow the Trump administration to revoke the protections from deportation granted to the Haitians.
Ten Republicans and one independent lawmaker joined Democrats in voting for the measure.
TPS is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. It provides eligible migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston and Richard Cowan in Washington; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis, Rod Nickel)
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