In Columbia Heights, a small city that made national headlines after ICE detained a five-year-old during Operation Metro Surge, community groups are working daily to keep up with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of need.
Families are trying to dig themselves out of a hole that their government put them in,” Columbia Heights School Board Chair Mary Granlund said.
According to Granlund, multiple students are now homeless because of ICE operations. She said that people had to make a choice based on safety to remain home, fearful that they would be detained or otherwise targeted. It’s a story echoed across the metro, with Minneapolis grappling with how best to address what advocates describe as a housing and rent crisis…