The House erupted into chaos on Wednesday as Democrats attempted to censure Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., over a social media post from the lawmaker that amplified Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants and referred to them as “wild” and “thugs.”
The uproar centers on a post from Higgins Wednesday afternoon on the social media platform X, in which the congressman wrote that immigrants from the Caribbean nation should get “their ass out of our country.” He also called Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere.” The post has since been deleted.
Higgins’ words came in response to an Associated Press report that a nonprofit Haitian group has filed citizen criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, for the pair’s role in repeatedly spreading false claims that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating residents’ pets.
