With Border Patrol expected in New Orleans, a mayor-elect tugs at levers in her reach to ‘protect people’

By Michelle Krupa, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — This city’s new mayor-elect prays many times a day, for big things and small ones and often, she says, to a holy guardian known for helping defy lost causes. “My favorite patron saint is St. Jude,” Helena Moreno explains. “I don’t know what that says about me.”