周六，四名进步民主党国会议员登上网络根国家年度大会的舞台，抨击特朗普政府及其对南部边境移民的镇压。
众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔(Ilhan Omar)转述了她的一位民主党同事对美墨边境拘留寻求庇护的移民面临的条件的引述，称她被告知，“如果笼子里有狗，国会的每一位议员都会投票确保笼子不存在。”
奥马尔在费城的舞台上与她的民主党众议员同行，包括拉希达·特拉伊卜、阿安娜·普雷斯利和黛比·哈兰。
奥马尔说:“我认为我们不要让总统和政府的行为正常化，这一点非常重要。”。“他嘴里不断冒出一堆垃圾，代表他说话的人的嘴，他的政府。”
2019年7月6日，美国代表伊尔汉·阿卜杜拉希·奥马尔在路易斯安那州新奥尔良市欧内斯特·莫里奥尔会议中心举行的第25届精华音乐节上讲话。乔希·布拉斯特/盖蒂
普雷斯利告诉观众，她对“宫廷阴谋”不感兴趣，这种阴谋占据了特朗普白宫人事动荡的大部分报道。
特拉伊布猛烈抨击边境的移民拘留，预言“整整一代儿童...我永远不会忘记我们的国家对他们做了什么。”
“我们国家需要真正全面的移民改革，”她说。“这不能归咎于数字和谁。它必须是关于被摧毁的孩子和家庭。这是毁灭性的。”
在副总统迈克·彭斯周五参观了得克萨斯州的两个移民甄别中心后，他很快向媒体通报了他的初步印象:“我对我所看到的并不感到惊讶。”
“我知道我们会看到一个不堪重负的系统，”他说。
其中一个中心过于拥挤，据报道散发出被拘留者缺乏适当卫生设施的气味。
但是，“网络根国家”活动的小组成员甚至不接受在现行制度下为移民提供的最好的拘留设施。
普雷斯利说，即使你改善了处理中心的恶劣条件，政府内部的国土安全监察机构已经记录了这些条件，移民们还是会变得萎靡不振。
她观察到，“如果我们改善笼子里孩子的条件，他们仍然在笼子里。”
普雷斯利声称:“在[这些洲际交易所发生的事情是]他们试验如何滥用隐私权，如何滥用人权，并扩大规模。”。
部分由于边境移民资源的错误管理，国会民主党人对弹劾唐纳德·特朗普总统的前景越来越直言不讳。
特拉伊卜在当选后对公众的介绍包括“弹劾总统”的告诫，她周六再次表达了这些主张，并反思了她直言不讳的弹劾呼吁如何改变了公众情绪。
“我们要弹劾总统，别担心，”她说。“我们从‘哦，别提这件事了’到将近80名国会议员站出来支持对这位总统的弹劾调查。”
然而，80名代表仍远远低于众议院起诉现任总统所需的218名代表。越过这一障碍，总统的实际罢免将需要参议院三分之二的多数，此时民主党将落后至少20票。
"CONSTANT PILE OF GARBAGE": PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS SOUND OFF AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AT NETROOTS NATION
Four progressive Democratic members of Congress took the stage at Netroots Nation's annual convention on Saturday to sound off against the Trump administration and its crackdown on migrants at the southern border.
Representative Ilhan Omar relayed a quote from one of her Democratic colleagues about the conditions migrants seeking asylum face in custody at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying she was told, "If there were dogs in those cages, every single member of Congress would vote to make sure those cages didn't exist."
Omar was joined by three of her Democratic House colleagues on stage in Philadelphia, including Representatives Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Deb Haaland.
"I think it's really important for us not to normalize the behavior of this president and this administration," Omar said. "It's a constant pile of garbage that comes out of his mouth, the mouths of the people that speak for him, his administration."
U.S Representative Ilhan Abdullahi Omar speaks at the 25th Essence Music Festival at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana.JOSH BRASTED/GETTY
Pressley told the audience that she was disinterested with that "palace intrigue" that has consumed much of the coverage of the Trump White House's personnel turmoil.
Tlaib inveighed against immigration detention at the border, predicting that "a whole generation of children... will never forget what our nation did to them."
"There needs to be real comprehensive immigration reform in our country," she said. "It can't be about numbers and who to blame. It has to be about the children and the families that are devastated. It is devastating to see."
After Vice President Mike Pence visited a pair of migrant screening centers in Texas on Friday, he quickly informed the press of his initial impressions: "I was not surprised by what I saw."
"I knew we'd see a system that was overwhelmed," he said.
One of the centers was overcrowded and reportedly reeked from a lack of access to proper hygiene for detainees.
But panelists at the Netroots Nation event would not accept even the best version of detention facilities offered to migrants under the current system.
Pressley said that even if you improve the horrid conditions inside processing centers, which have been documented by the government's own internal Homeland Security watchdog, migrants are still left to languish.
She observed that "if we improve the conditions of a child in a cage, they are still in a cage."
"What is happening in these ICE facilities [is that] they pilot how they can abuse privacy rights, how they can abuse human rights, and they scale that up," Pressley alleged.
In part due to the misadministration of immigration resources at the border, congressional Democrats have grown increasingly vocal about the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump.
Tlaib, whose introduction to the public after her election included an admonition to "impeach the motherf---er," voiced these claims once more on Saturday and reflected on how her outspoken calls for impeachment have moved public sentiment.
"We're gonna impeach the M-F-er, don't worry," she said. "We went from 'Oh, let's not talk about it' to close to 80 members of Congress coming out and supporting an impeachment inquiry in to this president."
However, 80 representatives would still be far short of the 218 needed in the House to indict a sitting president. Beyond that hurdle, actual removal of a president would require a two-thirds majority in the Senate, where Democrats would fall at least 20 votes shy at this point.
