PAINESVILLE, Ohio — Clutching a poster that read, “Stop bullying my family,” Graciela Alvarez-Leon stood in a crowd of anti-ICE demonstrators outside the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Monday night.

She and her husband, Jeff Hager, joined hundreds of protesters calling on Sheriff Frank Leonbruno to withdraw from a new 287(g) agreement that lets local deputies act as immigration-enforcement partners.

The agreement allows specially trained Lake County deputies to question people about their immigration status, issue ICE detainers and begin deportation proceedings. Lake County is one of only a handful of counties in Ohio participating in the federal program.

Alvarez Leon, 57, who immigrated to the United States from Cuernavaca, Mexico in 2001 and now lives in Euclid, said she fears the pa

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