Eviction Threats Rise Post-Metro Surge
It's been months since the feds announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, but the damage ICE inflicted is still hurting our community.
ICOM, the Interfaith Coalition on Migration, has 32 families on the wait list for rent assistance. The organization usually assists 50 or so families. This year, they've already worked with 300 families.
Now, ICOM is hearing from more families threatened with eviction. ICOM notes that evictions are rising because people are now behind by several months. In the first months of metro surge, people were not yet being evicted.
This MN Reformer article notes that Minnesota lost more than 4,500 hospitality jobs during Metro Surge. https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/study-operation-metro-surge-cost-minnesota-an-estimated-4600-hospitality-jobs-in-3-months/
Now that ICE is skulking in the shadows in Minnesota and some mutual aid funds have closed, we need to keep helping immigrants here whose lives and incomes have been upended because of ICE.
If you can, please contribute to any of these or other mutual aid funds helping Twin Citians affected by Metro Surge:
• Neighbors helping neighbors (they subgrant money throughout the metro)
• Free Bodega at Back Pocket Vintage (mutual aid pantry w/ 2 locations)
And through June, Twin Cities-based Center for Victims of Torture, which offers help and services to many immigrants and asylum seekers, will match all donations they receive. (https://give.cvy.org/campaign/801760/donate)