A Republican congressman provoked a hail of outrage after posting a racist attack on Haitian immigrants on social media, which he subsequently deleted amid calls for him to be censured.
Clay Higgins used his congressional X account to repeat debunked accusations – spread by Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee – about Haitians eating pets and broadened the attack to call them “thugs” and brand Haiti as “the nastiest country in the Western hemisphere”.
