Republican US lawmaker Higgins under fire for false claim about Haitian Americans


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  • Thursday, 26 Sep 2024

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), walks onto the Senate floor, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Clay Higgins faced a call for censure on Wednesday for a repeating false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, that the head of the Congressional Black Caucus denounced as inciting hate.

Democratic Representative Steven Horsford called for Higgins' censure after the Louisiana lawmaker posted, and later deleted, a message repeating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors' pets and calling on them to leave the country.

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