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.

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.

Rep. Clay Higgins deleted a social media post Wednesday calling Haitian immigrants “thugs” following condemnation from many of his colleagues.