A homeowner in Cambridge, Maryland, has gone viral after allegedly calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a roofing crew she hired, leading to the detention of six Guatemalan workers on her roof just as they were about to finish the job.
The incident took place on Wednesday and was livestreamed on TikTok.
According to eyewitness accounts and footage captured live from the roof, ICE agents arrived at the property, secured the perimeter, and took the six workers into custody while they were still working.
A legal coworker on the crew, Bryan Polanco, a Dominican national with permanent U.S. residency, livestreamed the entire encounter for approximately 30 minutes.
Polanco, who was not detained, narrated the events and later confronted the homeowner on camera, accusing her of waiting until the job was almost done before calling authorities.
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In the video, Polanco can be heard stating that the workers had completed roughly three days of labor, including the tear-off phase, with old shingles visible on the ground, and that the homeowner still owed the crew approximately $10,000. He claimed she knew the workers’ immigration status from the start.
The video shows agents in tactical vests on the ground directing the workers to come down from the roof.
One clip even appears to capture the homeowner handing a ladder to the agents to help them gain access to the workers.
The roofing company involved appears to be Allied Remodeling of Central MD, based on the shirts worn by the workers, though the company has not issued a statement about the incident.
According to a Univision report about the incident in Spanish, the men were between 18 and 40.
“We had a project to start today… when they started the work, the owner of the house called immigration,” Polanco told Univision DC, according to a translation of the report. “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.”
“It is not the same to see it as to live it, it is that I have already seen many videos and sadly today I had to experience it and I feel that it is something that really moves you a lot,” Polanco added.
