The discharge petition for a resolution that would require the Trump administration to extend temporary legal protections for Haitian migrants earned enough signatures on Friday to force a vote on the House floor. Rep. Marie Gleusenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) was the 218th signature on the petition, which also secured support from four Republicans: Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Don Bacon (Neb.).

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), the petition’s sponsor, said in a video posted on the social platform X: “I’m so grateful for our broad coalition that made this moment possible. This is essential to saving lives and the 350,000 Haitian nationals that call this country home are so deserving.” Pressley said in a press release that she expects a vote on her bill within the coming weeks.

Once a discharge petition reaches the required signature threshold, it triggers a seven-day waiting period before the motion becomes eligible for consideration. After a member announces their intent to offer the motion on the floor, the House speaker must schedule a vote within two legislative days.

The resolution would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate Haiti for temporary protected status (TPS) until January 20, 2029.

The Trump administration has sought to revoke TPS for Haitian nationals, arguing that conditions in the Caribbean country no longer justified the designation. The policy was supposed to take effect early last month, but a federal judge temporarily blocked its implementation the day before. Noem’s order was put on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by five Haitian TPS holders last summer.

The judge, Ana Reyes, sided with the plaintiffs’ argument that Noem “preordained her termination decision” because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants,” pointing to the former secretary’s December comments that she was recommending a full travel ban on countries “flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”

Reyes, a Biden appointee, also referenced Trump calling Haiti a “s—hole country” during a private meeting with lawmakers during his first term in 2018.

The battle is now headed to the Supreme Court, where justices have agreed to take up the Haiti case as well as a similar case involving Syria’s TPS designation. TPS was created in 1990 to provide temporary, lawful immigration status and protection from deportation to nationals of certain foreign countries who are already in the U.S. when conditions in their home countries make it unsafe for them to return.