Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins' post criticizing Haitian migrants was later deleted.
Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins was confronted during a hearing on the House floor Wednesday after he posted, and then deleted, a statement on social media criticizing Haitian migrants.The post was screenshotted by Punchbowl News reporter Melanie Zanona before Higgins deleted it from X . In it, the Republican lawmaker accused Haitians of 'eating pigs, vudu' and called Haiti the 'nastiest country in the western hemisphere.
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Nevada Representative Steven Horsford, called for a censure in response to the post, saying that Higgins' views 'do not reflect credibly on the House. In fact, they're inciting hate, they're inciting fear.'The motion started a heated back-and-forth with Republican members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who objected to Horsford's motion.
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