If there’s a silver lining to the ongoing nightmare of ICE, it’s that it’s nice to know who among your friends, neighbors, and co-workers would have been an enthusiastic Nazi in 1930s Germany. Y’know the type to rat out Anne Frank.
Enter a Cambridge, Maryland, homeowner, who should be extremely thankful that her identity is not currently known. A video is currently doing the rounds on social media that appears to depict a stand-off that took place after she hired six Guatemalan workers to repair her roof.
A $10,000 bill was due. But, rather than pay up for their hard work, the homeowner allegedly called ICE to drag them away, even providing them a ladder to reach them:
Homeowner waits until construction job is nearly finished, then calls ICE on 6 workers she allegedly owes $10,000 to, she even helps agents detain them. pic.twitter.com/jEM9Xw2ZCL
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) March 26, 2026
“Hatred in her heart”
Their co-worker, identified as Bryan Polanco, documented the entire encounter, pointing the camera at the woman and saying:
“We came to fix this lady’s house, and she’s the one who turned us in. Fixing up her house and still with hatred in her heart.”
Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Mexicans, Brazilians — hardest workers I’ve ever worked with, no contest.
— Jeff Leppard (@SkelligRainey) March 26, 2026
He later underlined:
“What she did tell me, and I told one of the other guys, is that if immigrants come back again to finish the project, she’s always going to call ICE.”
After ICE shoved the workers into a van and sped away, doubtless to some kind of hellish detention camp, the workers’ van was abandoned with its doors wide open and thousands of dollars’ worth of tools inside. Well, I guess that’s gone for good.
she hired people in a vulnerable situation, had them finish the job, called ICE so as not to pay
— Ana F Xica (@ughsmxicana) March 26, 2026
sounds like slave labor
There’s not really an upside to this horrible story. However, there may be some karma. As per Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, what this homeowner did may be a felony in Maryland. He points out that the law prohibits using someone’s immigration status as leverage to avoid paying them, specifically the act of hiring workers and then threatening them with deportation to avoid payment.
These days, it’s too much to hope that justice will find its way to this homeowner’s door. But the outrage and disgust are real, and we can only hope consequences are on their way soon. Hopefully, the storm that comes down upon her will make her wish she’d let these guys finish repairing her roof.
