US Republican sparks outrage for racist post attacking Haitian immigrants

Louisiana's Clay Higgins called Haitians thugs' in now-deleted X post after Ohio group filed charges against Trump

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".