QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border

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The New York Times
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QAnon followers, motivated by an unfounded conspiracy theory about sex trafficking, are intercepting migrant children at the southern U.S. border and collecting information about their families.
The site of the camp set up by Jason Frank and his team along the border wall in Sasabe, Ariz.
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QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border
Far-right activists are intercepting migrant children and collecting information about their families, based on an unfounded conspiracy theory that they are falling prey to sex-trafficking rings.
4:14 AM · May 9, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/border-qanon-arizona. html

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SASABE, Ariz. — The 15 migrant children, weary and hungry, stumbled toward a gap in the rust-colored border wall that soars between Mexico and Arizona, nearing the end of their two-week trek north. Unexpectedly, a man in a cap emblazoned with a blackened American flag — traditionally, a message that “no quarter” will be given to the enemy — approached them and coaxed them to his campsite.

Soon, the girls and boys, who were from Guatemala, were sitting under a blue tent devouring hamburgers and sausages. Their host for the day in this remote part of the Arizona desert, Jason Frank, an enthusiastic follower of the QAnon movement, distributed “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirts featuring an image of President Biden. Giggling and confused, the children changed into the shirts and posed for a group photo. Later, they formed a prayer circle with Mr. Frank and the rest of his team before the Border Patrol showed up.

Mr. Frank and his group, guns holstered on their hips, have been camping out near Sasabe, Ariz., as a self-appointed border force with the stated aim of protecting the thousands of migrant children who have been arriving from the evils of sex trafficking — a favorite QAnon theme.

They are the latest in what over the years has developed into a cottage industry of dozens of armed civilians who have packed camouflage gear, tents and binoculars and deployed along the southern border.

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[Chainfire]

1. Why don't we push back on these Fascist bastards?

They have to pay no price to carry out their Gestapo actions.

[Achilleaze]

2. Stupid RepubliQons. Their border block prevented JFK Jr. from...

getting to Dallas on time to reinstall their most-worshipped invidious Republican moral exemplar, TFG himself, as the Special Russian-USA Potentate Grifter & Ass Grabber.

[2naSalit]

3. THOSE are...

The people who need to be run off by the National Guard.