If you’ve heard about the “Quality Learing Center,” then you know Nick Shirley’s work. Last winter, the young “independent journalist” set out to investigate Somali fraud in Minnesota, striking gold with the facility above, which has become the butt of jokes and memes everywhere.
Our Nate Jackson summarized that investigation, noting, “Yes, the fraudulent abuse of taxpayers has been awful in the Land of 10,000 Daycares, but we now know and can shut it down.” Of course, shutting it down would take cooperation from state government, which hasn’t exactly been forthcoming, given it’s the domain of far-left Democrats like Governor Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Regardless, Shirley has previously kept his hand in fraud investigations, but he’s now branched out into the realm of human trafficking. A new video poses two questions to various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that received fat federal contracts: Where did the money go, and — more importantly — where did the kids go?
One NGO made $115,000,000 to traffic children across the United States. This is how it worked: - Kids trafficked by cartel - Sent to an NGO - NGO receives millions of your tax dollars from the government - Then sends kid to “sponsor,” no biometrics, no DNA testing - Never see or Show more
🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars. One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others
In one example gleaned from the overall video, Nick locates an NGO called Vision Quest, which purportedly received a $115 million contract from the federal government but refused to answer his questions about where the money and children went.
“These NGOs are more secure than the border, with high spiked gates, cameras, and no access to the front desk,” writes Shirley on X. “Ask a question and they will call the police.” He also saw a fleet of newer vans in the parking lot that, he notes, never moved while he was there.
As Shirley describes it, this is how the scheme worked: Kids were trafficked by a cartel, then sent to an NGO. The NGO then received millions of your tax dollars from the government, only to send the kid to a “sponsor” with no biometrics or DNA testing. “Never see or hear from the child again,” said Shirley.
This also ties into a different investigation and story cited by Not the Bee’s Davy Crockett regarding the vast number of children who were basically abandoned by being dropped off at vacant lots and non-existent addresses. “Kids are regularly brought into America for prostitution and forced labor,” Crockett wrote, “and up until recently, your government was facilitating it with the tax money you are obligated to pay!”
Some see Shirley as a “gotcha” journalist simply fishing for clicks, as well as the gratuitous promotion of Polymarket in the video as he’s waiting for the police. Perhaps this week he’ll become one of President Donald Trump’s first fraud-finding millionaires. But it’s worth asking why he would risk his life and limb to report on these issues. (It’s also worth asking why “mainstream” journalists aren’t overturning tables in an effort to find the truth, as they would for any Republican scandal.)
Missing children is one unfortunate by-product of our four-year interregnum in border enforcement under President Autopen. Whether it’s 300,000 children as Shirley claims or the smaller number the House Oversight Committee gave in a hearing over the summer, the fact remains: even one missing child is one too many. The Trump administration at least is claiming that 146,000 unaccompanied minors have been located.
He may not be the most tactful watchdog, but Nick Shirley is bringing this subject into the national conversation. It may make for some uncomfortable questions for Democrats should they take over the House or Senate.
