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ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY — While the New York Mets continue an 11-game skid, a more hopeful baseball story is developing a short drive southeast from Citi Field: Rockville Centre Little League held its Opening Day ceremony, where Congresswoman Laura Gillen announced $2 million in federal funding to overhaul Hickey Field.

In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, a bipartisan effort led by New York lawmakers to preserve Temporary Protected Status for Haitians passed out of the United States House of Representatives on Thursday.

Temporary Protected Status, also known as TPS, is a humanitarian immigration status that protects those whose home countries have been deemed unsafe from deportation. It also provides recipients with authorization to work.

The House on Thursday defied its own Republican leaders and passed a bill that would force the Trump administration to extend temporary humanitarian protections for Haitian migrants, in a bipartisan rejection of President Trump’s effort to end them.

The move was largely symbolic, given that Mr. Trump would be all but certain to veto the bill. His administration last year terminated the deportation protections, known as Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 350,000 Haitians who under the program were allowed to live and work legally in the United States.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday approved a bill sponsored by Long Island Democrat Laura Gillen to reject part of President Donald Trump's immigration policy and reinstate protected status for nearly 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States.

The bill was the first measure introduced by freshman Gillen (D-Rockville Centre) upon her arrival in Washington last year as a minority party member — and now is her first that has passed.

But prospects for approval in the Senate, which like the House is controlled by Republicans, remain uncertain.