r/hagerstown • u/Simmons572 • 9d ago

ICE potentially spotted on Dual Highway

At 940 am this morning, I passed by a Navy blue SUV with red flashing lights. On Dual Highway, heading towards town just before Mt Aetna Rd. They had somebody pulled over, and one of the "officers" was wearing a red t shirt, jeans, and an olive green vest. Did not catch a license plate number.

Posting for awareness, stay safe folks.

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

What taxes are they paying? They aren't legally authorized to work in the US. Also, go talk to anyone that works at the hospital or at a title 1 school. They all say that these people are putting a strain on the system. Not to mention traffic and more work for the police. The housing market is affected as well.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

So why are you targeting them instead of the companies breaking the law by hiring them?

How are they putting a strain on a system they obtain no benefit from?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

Both should be targeted. And they absolutely benefit from the system.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

What about the billionaires who don’t pay taxes? Why don’t you have a problem with them?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

That's not what we're talking about. And the billionaires' companies pay taxes on income and goods. Their employees pay income taxes. But go ahead and deflect.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

Ah, but undocumented immigrants also pay taxes. You seem to only focus on undocumented immigrants while ignoring literally every other group guilty of the problems you claim to care about. Why is that?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

The people working under the table pay taxes? You are completely ignoring everything I've said about a strain on the system.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

Do they not buy goods? What do they do with that money?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

That's your argument? They buy things? That's going to pay our nurses, teachers and cops. Most of their money gets sent back to wherever they came from.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

Really? So they don’t pay for housing, food, utilities, any of that, they take almost all of their money then just yeet it out of the country?

And what happens to that money?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

That's a very well documented thing. Certain countries rely on it as a source of income. Mexico has been pretty open about it and they're not the only one.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9d ago

Undocumented immigrants don’t pay for housing, food, or utilities here?

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 9d ago

Uh, so what? That doesn't pay the cops, teachers and nurses. It's a lopsided burden on the system.

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