CBC calls for GOP lawmaker to be censured for post attacking Haitians as 'thugs'

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Wednesday called for Rep. Clay Higgins to be censured for a since-deleted social media post in which the Louisiana Republican criticized Haitian migrants. 

CBC Chair Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and other Democrats took to the House floor to call for a censure in an extensive and at times heated back-and-forth with Republicans.

“I hope that every member of this body understands that no person, particularly those who contribute to communities — who are entrepreneurial, who give to our communities by being nurses and first responders and teachers — that those individuals, those children, no longer have to live in fear or intimidation because of any words or quotes to come from members of this body,” Horsford said on the House floor. 

Earlier Wednesday, Higgins pushed the false narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating their neighbors’ pets. 

“Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters... but damned if they don't feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP,” Higgins posted. “All these thugs better get their mind right and their a-- out of our country before January 20th.”

The post has since been deleted. 

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