It was barely 7 a.m. on a late August Wednesday and Osman Canales was already out on a Long Island street toting his megaphone, this time in Patchogue, where he inched ever closer to ICE agents and blared his disgust as they made arrests.

"Shame on you for arresting workers," Canales shouted through a megaphone. "Separating families ... innocent workers that are being taken."

The 36-year-old Long Islander, also an immigrant from El Salvador and an American citizen, continued his verbal takedown of the heavily armed agents by way of a series of questions designed to poke at their humanity.

"Don’t you have families? Don’t you have children? What are you going to tell your children? That you’re separating families? That you left children without their parents? Shame on you," he said.

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