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CA Democrats Advance the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" to Criminalize Investigative Journalism (AB2624) https://www.bitchute.com/video/7n4oHbYjFWbc/ California Democrats are trying to make investigating fraud illegal April 13, 2026 Bill text CA AB2624: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2624/id/3371241 https://californiaglobe.com/fl/california-democrats-advance-stop-nick-shirley-act-to-criminalize-investigative-journalism/ California Democrats are trying to pass a bill to criminalize investigative journalists for violating “Privacy for immigration support services providers.” That should say “illegal immigration.” California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) is slamming state Democrats for voting to advance a controversial new law, Assembly Bill 2624 by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D-Oakland), to silence citizen journalists and shield taxpayer-funded organizations from public scrutiny. Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D-Oakland), at AB 2624 hearing. Assemblyman DeMaio had a contentious exchange with Assemblywoman Bonta, the bill’s author, in the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee when he tried to press Bonta on the double standard her bill would create – particularly as the California Legislature tries through legislation to ban the same protections from law enforcement officers. As the Globe recently reported, California Democrats Want to Ban ICE Officers From Future State/Local Law Enforcement Jobs and Impose Selective Taxation. In response to the deaths of ICE protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, State Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D-Los Angeles) said she is “mobilizing a coalition of experts and legislators to fight back against the egregious and murderous overreach of this federal administration,” and called Good’s and Pretti’s deaths at the hands of federal ICE agents “public executions.” “Certain political groups will have more protections and privacy then law enforcement,” Assemblyman DeMaio said to Bonta. Assemblywoman Bonta retorted that her bill protects people being harassed. doxed and subjected to violence, allowing them to have the ability to protect themselves. “Shouldn’t law enforcement have that same right?” DeMaio asked. Bonta said she was solely focused on the contents of her bill and whether people working in immigrant services will be protected under the law. “Why are we treating sworn law enforcement officers differently than these agitators?” DeMaio asked Bonta. “They are doxed, harassed, and subjected to threats of violence.” Bonta got testy and said her bill doesn’t have anything to do with law enforcement. “Why do we have a double standard? Why do we not offer the same protections for the men and women who put oil the uniform every day who are sometimes subjected to the very gross you are trying to protect?” DeMaio asked. Notably, the bill is sponsored by the Women’s Foundation of California, Solis Policy Institute and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, CHIRLA, an “immigrant services” NGO many say are behind anti-ICE riots. Even Elon Musk has taken notice of this outrageous bill: The Assembly Judiciary Committee explains the bill in recent analysis: “In the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement campaigns, demand for immigration-related legal services and related resources has skyrocketed. After just one year of Trump’s second term, organizations such as Immigrant Legal Defense and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) reported a wave of new requests for assistance from students in both the University of California and California State University systems who are currently authorized to enroll with their status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). (Delilah Brumer and Mercy Sosa, Demand for immigration legal services spikes at California colleges (February 3, 2025) CalMatters available at: https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2025/02/dream-centers-legal- services/) In the midst of the 2024 campaign, before the administration assumed power, organizations that provided shelter and resources to migrants faced vitriolic attacks from far-right conspiracy theorists. One New York Times report detailed how James O’Keefe, the right-wing figure who used to lead Project Veritas, began posting videos on X in March of 2024 claiming Catholic Charities, a faith-based organization that manages shelters for migrants in San Diego, was “an illegal holding site for women and children and speculating, without evidence, that they had been trafficked.” In the wake of those posts, Catholic Charities experienced a wave of online and in- person threats, as O’Keefe’s supporters began appearing at the shelters, searching for “smuggled” children. (Mirian Jordan, Faith-Based Groups That Assist Migrants Become targets of Extremists (June 2, 2024) New York Times available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html?searchResultPosition=5.) A