About 200 Long Island faith leaders, elected officials and citizens gathered Thursday evening by the Glen Street Long Island Rail Road station in Glen Cove to protest the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration enforcement policies.

Joseph Varone, of West Hempstead, said he attended the protest to serve himself up as a reminder to other Long Islanders of their immigrant origins.

"My family came here from Greece and Turkey. My grandmother was a maid at the old Garden City Hotel. My other grandmother worked in a factory, day and night, making clothes in the city, in the sweatshops. And too many of us have forgotten our roots, and everybody is of value, every single person, and that's why I'm here," Varone told Newsday.

"What's happening now is horrendous," he added. "It's fascism bey

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