Huh? The Mann act on steroids?
No requirement to cross those pesky state lines, no requirement that you transport the minors or pay for their transport, all you need to do is drive your own car or ride a bus suspiciously?
Apparently arranging a meeting for sex with a minor is A-OK, but driving to it isn't?
Sooooo, if one of these miscreants arranged to have the tyke come to them, it would be legal?
*cue twilight zone theme*
“Huh? The Mann act on steroids?”
The Mann Act requires an actual female vicitm, I believe. So these newer laws designed catch internet predators certainly seem broader.
“No requirement to cross those pesky state lines...”
The Mann Act is federal law, these newer laws are state laws.
“Apparently arranging a meeting for sex with a minor is A-OK, but driving to it isn’t?”
Actually showing up demonstrates intent more than internet chat does.
“Sooooo, if one of these miscreants arranged to have the tyke come to them, it would be legal?”
That does not follow at all. The existence of a law criminalizing one specific behavior does not impute, logically, either criminality or legality to other specific behaviors.