California bill criminalizes exposing immigration fraud
AB 2624, sponsored by the wife of California's Attorney General, fines citizens and journalists $4,000 minimum for investigating fraud at immigration service providers. The bill strips First Amendment protections and forces you to pay the organization's legal fees if they tell you not to publish.
This isn't transparency. This is a gag order designed to protect organizations getting public money while hiding where it goes.
🚨 Confronting California Politicians behind the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”: California’s Attorney General’s wife has created a bill titled AB 2624 (aka the Stop Nick Shirley Act) that will fine citizens and journalists a minimum $4,000 for exposing and searching for potential fraud inside Immigration Support Service Providers and take away their First Amendment rights. This bill will protect NGOs, nonprofits, legal offices, healthcare facilities and learing centers who provide services to immigrants. If an immigration service provider gives you a piece of paper saying you cannot publish your video, you may be fined $4,000 and have to pay for their legal fees. Instead of pushing for more transparency, California is trying to shield journalists and citizens from looking into where their tax dollars are going. California politicians need the fraud to continue. EXPOSE IT ALL.
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