House Democrats immediately tried to reprimand GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana from the floor of the chamber on Wednesday over a since deleted social media post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who needed to get “their a** out of our country.

In November, Acadiana U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins likely will receive a vote on being censured by the House for a social media post about Haitian migrants that drew

Higgins took to X to spread false claims that Haitian immigrants were “eating pets,” further escalating his attack with racist tropes by labeling them “thugs” and calling Haiti “the nastiest country in the Western hemisphere.