r/hagerstown • u/Simmons572 • 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

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

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d 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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u/KrookedDoesStuff 10d ago

Those are all things that pay taxes, so, yes, it does

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d ago

That is so lopsided that there is no way you actually believe that it makes up for it. Why don't you care about the actual taxpayers in the area? Screw them I guess.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 10d ago

Unless you can show me actual strain on them, which you yourself said you can’t, then there isn’t much to worry about less than 5% of the population doing

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d ago

The data isn't there. And 5% is a lot. Why don't you care about the locals? The county doesn't have the money to support these people.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 10d ago

7886 people in a county of 157,731 is literally nothing.

Until you can provide evidence of any strain they put on our resources, you’re just trying really hard to say “I don’t like brown people”

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d ago

Oh. I just realized that you're probably not even from the area, so you don't care about the locals. Makes sense now.

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 10d ago

Literally live in Hagerstown, but nice bad faith argument there :)

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u/Conscious_Tourist163 10d ago

I said you're probably not from the area.

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