I was more than a little certain that someone else would find more widespread ‘daycare center’ fraud being committed by people who appear to be immigrants, and it didn’t take long to have my prediction, um, bear fruit.
Independent journalist Cam Higby is doing the kind of shoe-leather reporting the mainstream media stubbornly refuse to touch. Much like Nick Shirley did in Minnesota, Higby is actually showing up, asking questions, and documenting what he finds—rather than parroting official talking points.
Higby has turned his attention to Somali-linked daycare operations in Washington state, including Dhagash Childcare, which pulled in nearly a quarter of a million dollars in taxpayer funds last year.
In reacting to Higby’s stated findings, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, a left-wing Democrat (because of course) released a statement that sidestepped the issue of fraud but took aim at individuals like Higby, warning them of potential legal repercussions.
In a post on X, Brown wrote, “My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking. We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.”
He encouraged people to call his office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident hotline, before adding a throwaway line about how he’ll totally look into fraud that’s “substantiated and verified by law enforcement and regulatory agencies.”
But Higby isn’t backing down from performing a duty well-covered by the Constitution’s First Amendment, dropping another investigative video about Omar Muna S Daycare in Kent, Washington:
? MORE DAYCARE FRAUD | WASHINGTON
Omar Muna S Daycare in Kent, WA is serving 2 children according to the DCYF. They’ve taken in roughly $200,000 from the DCYF this year.
One person living in the house, that the State indicates is a daycare – says she’s unaware of a daycare pic.twitter.com/TXjbY2YL1N
— Cam Higby ?? (@camhigby) December 31, 2025
“We are on our way to Omar Muna childcare,” Higby says at the start of the three-minute video. “Which is just one mile away from the last place we went to.”
Higby pulls up to a large, blue house.
“Hi, is this Omar Muna childcare?” Higby asks a woman.
“Yeah,” she replies.
“I was wondering if I could get an application,” Higby says.
“An application?” the woman asks.
“Is that possible?” Higby asks.
The woman hesitates then asks, “Are you trying to enroll a kid or…?”
“Yeah, yeah. For my kid,” Higby replies. He follows the woman to the front door of the childcare and she goes inside.
Another woman comes to the door and Higby asks her the same thing. “Hi. You guys are Omar Muna? I was just looking for an application,” he says to the new woman.
“I don’t know,” the woman says.
“You don’t know about the childcare?” Higby asks. “I thought you just said this was Omar Muna childcare.”
The woman then closes the door in Higby’s face.
No children are seen or heard in this video, and there is trash all over the yard, including a big black trash bag on the front porch.
“So I just went to Omar Muna childcare, right here,” Higby tells the camera. “And asked if I could get an application for my child, to enroll them, and the older woman inside the building said she had no idea about the childcare that’s allegedly out of this building.”
“The other woman said that she’s well aware of the childcare, and this is Omar Muna childcare,” Higby adds.
Then, Higby drives away as a woman attempts to record his license plate. Later, he shared what how much of the state’s tax dollars went to Omar Muna Childcare: “$191,000, this is just in 2025. The last biennium, which includes the first half of 2025, paid them out $74,000.”
“Now, what’s interesting,” he added. “They’re licensed for 12 kids, you can see that right here. They have ten available slots, which means they can take on ten children with a license capacity of 12. They only have two kids. $191,000 this year for two children.” The license dates back to 2005.
He went on to say the ‘daycare center’ has a “surprisingly clean” record, just “one failed or missed training.”
“Their earliest tax grant biennium we can look at is 2013-2015, where they made $164,000,” Higby adds. “$96k 2015 to 2017. $176,000 2017 to 2019. It goes on and on and on.”
Seems pretty obvious there is daycare fraud taking place in Democrat-run Washington, too, but the AG there has decided the best way to address it is to attack and threaten the guy who exposed it.
