QAnon Fanatics Are Intercepting Migrant Kids at the Border

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-fanatics-are-intercepting-migrant-kids-at-the-border



QAnon supporters have been intercepting migrant children at the border with Mexico and then compiling information on their relatives in the U.S., according to The New York Times.

A man named Jason Frank is said to be at the forefront of the bizarre campaign, which has seen QAnon adherents and far-right activists enticing children who’ve just crossed the border with things like hot dogs and hamburgers.

Frank and other members of his group have been camping out along the border in Arizona in what they describe as a bid to protect the children from sex trafficking—a theme at the heart of the QAnon movement. “They are being trafficked, sex trafficked. That’s the No. 1 trade,” Frank was quoted as saying by the Times.

He is said to keep an AR-15 and a slew of other weapons inside his vehicle. While Frank has insisted his group always alerts Border Patrol to the children’s arrival, immigration activists have sounded the alarm over the QAnon supporters collecting information on the kids’ relatives in the U.S., something they say can lead to harassment of immigrant families. “We believe the conduct of this group is illegal and extremely dangerous,” public defender Margo Cowan told the Times.

Read it at The New York Times

[samnsara]

1. are they offering them candy? come here little girl...i have something for you...

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Sounds kind of like........IDK

GROOMING?!

[Hortensis]

4. Seriously, yes. Who doubts that this compulsive interest in children

who have to be protected from depraved predators also draws people with those appetites, whether they admit it to themselves or not?

[Torchlight]

2. Jason, isn't your windowless van filled with duct tape and candy a bad look?

But if you still feel the compunction to accuse people of trafficking children, it's understandable given your compunction to lure kids close to you with burgers and hot-dogs.

[royable]

5. If you were an author developing a fiction novel about something like this

and were bouncing ideas off a friend by email about the workings of a scheme like this, the FBI would probably be at your door within a day, wanting to ask you some very probing questions about just what kind of sick operation you have going on.

[malaise]

6. Grooming

That is all

[Irish_Dem]

7. The GOP is the party of sexual predators.

They are especially focused on children.