Lenexa residents tell officials they’re scared after ICE raided local restaurant

Lenexa resident Magaly Mieves used to walk five miles from her home on 67th Street and Quivira Road in Shawnee to 87th Street in Lenexa every day.

“(But) I don’t do it anymore because every time a black SUV comes by, I get scared,” Mieves shared during public comment at Tuesday’s Lenexa City Council meeting.

As someone with Afro-Caribbean heritage and family from Puerto Rico, she worries about federal immigration authorities stopping her and picking her up, she said…

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