The way Mary Hernandez describes it, the effort to keep families off the street in Shakopee, Minnesota, is like trying to keep your head above water.
“We can’t keep up,” Hernandez said.
As the executive director of the Shakopee non-profit Mi CASA, Hernandez has found that her work hasn’t slowed down at all since the announced end of Operation Metro Surge in February. The armed raids and worries about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents disguising themselves in the community are no longer day-to-day issues, but ensuring people still have a roof over their head is a constant battle…