Lenexa City Council member Melanie Arroyo, who was born in Mexico and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2018, wrote about her experience as an immigrant in an opinion piece for the Star. Then an anonymous caller asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to look into her ability to hold public office.

Lenexa City Councilmember Melanie Arroyo revealed Tuesday that she was recently asked to prove her citizenship to local police after an anonymous caller questioned her immigration status.

Arroyo recounted the experience publicly for the first time at the Lenexa City Council meeting on Tuesday night. She said that Lenexa Police had requested proof of her citizenship after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation passed along a concern from an anonymous caller who questioned her eligibility to hol

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