Updated at 5:54 p.m.

Painesville -- More than 400 people crowded into the basement of St. Mary's Catholic Church on the heels of a protest today against a weeklong sweep by immigration officials.

"We are scared," Guadelope Gonzalez said as Mass was conducted upstairs. "They can take me and send me back to Mexico. We are good people. We just come here to work."

The crowd is on edge, fearful that immigration agents are still in Lake County, looking to arrest undocumented Hispanic people.

Not all of the people in the church are undocumented. Some have family members who are undocumented. They are trying to stay together.

They brought peanut butter sandwiches, oranges and Pepsi to the church, where they will stay until they are sure the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are gone.

Local police say the agents left yesterday, after arresting 22 people in Painesville. It's unclear if others were arrested.

Hispanic activists at the protest this afternoon said up to 100 people were taken into custody and whisked out of the county.

Those arrested are not being held at local jails or Cleveland city jail, police officials said.

Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesmen have not returned phone calls.

About 200 protestors gathered in front of City Hall at 2 p.m. Most called the arrests inhumane.

Gonzalez, 36, has a wife, a son and a daughter. His son, a toddler, was born in Chicago. He could stay in the United States, but I.C.E. could deport Gonzalez and his wife and daughter. Gonzalez said he has been in the United States for 13 years.

Last year, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Mexican immigrants lived in Lake and Ashtabula counties. Most work at the many nurseries in the area.