Overview
- Florida GOP Senate candidate Jake Lang told Newsweek he would deputize the Proud Boys and 'January 6 Patriots' to bounty hunt undocumented immigrants.
- He outlined offering bounties and working with local sheriffs to grant participants legal authority to join en masse and make arrests alongside federal agents.
- Lang is challenging appointed incumbent Ashley Moody in the Republican primary, and Moody has President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
- Lang was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and describes himself as a 'Trump loyalist.'
- The Southern Poverty Law Center designates the Proud Boys a hate group, and the organization is widely described as a far-right extremist group tied to the Capitol riot.