Clay Higgins targets Haitian migrants in racist rant

Horsford even ruled that Higgins should be censored for the post because he used his official account to “publicly defame, insult and demean all Haitians and Haitian Americans in an overtly racist post.”

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) objected, noting that the tweet was deleted while threatening to go through “every comment from the other side.”

However, Horsford was far from the only member of Congress to challenge Higgins’ post. “One of the most racist and bigoted posts I’ve seen from a fellow member of Congress,” wrote Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) on X. “And from his official government account. Disgusting.”

House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) also called him “disgusting,” releasing a statement calling Higgins “an election-denying, conspiracy-mongering racial arsonist who is a disgrace to the House to the people”.

Higgins is no stranger to the perpetuation of anti-black racism. In 1992, Higgins, then an Army military policy officer, described former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke as “a homeboy” during Duke’s unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

“Regardless of David being a homeboy and all that, the boy is a Nazi and that’s a real problem,” Higgins said. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and added that he actually voted for Duke in his 1991 gubernatorial campaign.

Higgins is also a staunch Trump supporter and has spread several conspiracy theories popular among the MAGA faithful, including that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was orchestrated by the FBI.