California Assembly Bill 2624 would make it illegal to post videos online of businesses that are described as immigrant services. The purpose is to protect the providers, employees and volunteers by penalizing those who publish their image on social media.
The title of the bills is “Privacy of immigration support services providers.”
Fox News reports that Republican state representative, Carl DeMaio, criticized the bill, saying it would "silence citizen journalists and shield taxpayer-funded organizations from public scrutiny."
Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute says it's being called the "Stop Nick Shirley Act” because it's designed to protect the empty "Learning Centers" and hospices Shirley uncovered in Minnesota and California.
“This bill is a fraud protector bill. It's a bill that is going to try to keep the truth from coming to the surface,” Dacus says.
The bill even allows immigrant services to use a substitute address to help throw investigative journalists off the trail. Author Mia Bonta says it's about protecting immigrants from threats of violence, but Dacus says it's meant to launder money that is going to Democrat politicians.
“Many believe, quite frankly, that they (Democrat politicians) are the, if not directly, indirect beneficiaries of that fraud by the financial support that they receive,” Dacus states.
It serves the same purpose, he says, as California's infamous “high-speed rail to nowhere” that's cost taxpayers around $23 billion for 80 miles of track that can't be used.
“The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ is exactly paralleled with regards to allowing money to be laundered and to be misused and to go to NGOs,” Dacus states.
Since Democrats have a lock on the state government in the Golden State, he says the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” is almost sure to pass.
“Well, the Democrats in California know full well that it's their programs, that it's their actions that have resulted in this loose giving away of money without accountability, which results in massive fraud,” Dacus states.
