Police investigate a Kansas city council member's citizenship after a complaint left via voicemail

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Nebraska Examiner

By: Sherman Smith - August 7, 2025 1:16 pm

LENEXA, Kansas — Melanie Arroyo lives in two worlds.

There’s the one where the Lenexa City Council member has to “assimilate and perform” like her white counterparts, she said. Then there’s the authentic world, where she is aware of how vulnerable she is in this country, “simply because I’m brown and because I have an accent.”

“It feels lonely,” she said.

At Tuesday night’s city council meeting, which was packed with residents who were upset about last week’s raid by federal authorities at El Toro Loco restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas, Arroyo revealed that city police had recently investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship.


Lenexa City Council member Melanie Arroyo talks with supporters after the Aug. 5, 2025, council meeting. Arroyo revealed city police investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)


Read more: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/08/07/police-investigate-a-kansas-city-council-members-citizenship-after-a-complaint-left-via-voicemail/

[Walleye]

1. The US sucks. I used to always stand up for the United States and the American people, but no more.

I am so disappointed in my fellow Americans. I think it’s time Donald Trump prove his citizenship and Stephen Miller. I don’t even think he’s from this planet

[slightlv]

2. The next protest I attend in Lenexa ought to be an interesting one!

[Walleye]

3. True that I am encouraged by the people I see showing up at these demonstrations. It's just not enough.

When it is our fellow American to have gotten a sent into this mess