August 19, 2025
Lenexa’s response to the recent federal search warrant demonstrates how far city leaders are willing to go to play politics instead of protecting people.
Lenexa City Council members praised their police department for refusing to assist Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the very agency tasked with dismantling trafficking networks, exposing labor abuse, and prosecuting crimes like child exploitation. At the same time, these leaders gleefully posture about their “commitment” to fighting trafficking. The obvious contradiction is stunning. And it’s sickening.
HSI is not the deportation wing of ICE—it’s the criminal investigations unit. When agents executed the warrant, they weren’t conducting a random sweep; they were pursuing evidence of drug trafficking and human exploitation. Yet a city councilmember trivialized it as a simple “documentation” request. That is either gross ignorance or intentional deception. These warrants are how investigators gather payroll and employment files to expose coercion and fraud. To dismiss the operation is to leave women and children in danger when they could have been rescued. Lenexa abandoned victims in the shadows and then patted itself on the back.
Worse still, city officials treated their refusal as some kind of sick and twisted moral victory. It was a cowardly, Woke stunt—prioritizing political theater over saving lives. That isn’t leadership. It’s a weakness. And it paints a target on Lenexa – and by default Johnson County – as a soft spot for traffickers of all kinds to operate with impunity.
Lenexa must drop the Woke nonsense and do the work the citizens elected—or hired—them to do. It’s time HSI and ICE took a harder look at Lenexa and other cities’ ridiculous and dangerous behavior. It’s also time for the citizens of Lenexa to take their responsibilities seriously when picking their city council. By sending these Woke clowns to the Council Dias, the nasty responsibility for human and drug trafficking in their city has been splashed on them because they are weak.
This is a cautionary tale for other cities in JoCo: Lenexa has earned the federal government’s scrutiny and reconsideration of all federal aid and payments – and the inevitable consequential fallout at election time.
Americans – including those in Lenexa – want Law & Order.
Thank God, Donald Trump is President of the United States.
Mike Brown: Dedicated to Kansas, Driven by Service
Mike served as a Johnson County Commissioner from 2017 to 2021, and has held roles with JoCo Parks & Rec, the Kansas Workforce Development Board, and the Kansas Black Chamber of Commerce. Politically, he’s supported campaigns like Shallenburger for Governor and Lindstrom for County Commission and recently served as Kansas Republican Chair—where he and his wife Kristi worked to deliver Kansas for President Trump.
The cowardly members of the Lenexa City Council made Lenexa a sanctuary city. And they refuse to cooperate with ICE. This will lead to crime and death from Fentanyl, and the residents of Lenexa will either have to move to another city or county. Thank God we have President Trump.