Tell us how you really feel, Clay Higgins.
The Republican representative from Louisiana typed up a deranged post targeting Haitian-Americans on Wednesday, calling them “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who need to get “their a– out of our country.”
Higgins, 63, indicated his outrage stemmed from a Haitian nonprofit’s decision to file criminal charges against JD Vance and Donald Trump for their role in sparking a recent spate of chaos in Springfield, Ohio, which began after they spread an unfounded rumor that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating residents’ pets.
Many of Higgins’ colleagues in the House of Representatives were quick to call out the post. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), called the remarks “vile, racist and beneath the dignity of the United States House of Representatives.”
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