American Mirror
January 14, 2018
DNC Vice Chair Keith Ellison is making no bones about it: the national party has a litmus test for candidates when it comes to protecting illegal aliens.
Ellison told Pennsylvania Democrats assembled in a church sanctuary that candidates better support a “clean DREAM Act,” or those candidates would run into trouble with the party.
During an event with “Allentown Dreamers” on Friday afternoon, Ellison issued a warning to those who step out of line with the DNC heavies.
“There cannot be one single politician in the state of Pennsylvania who is in a state of confusion about how you feel,” he told the audience.
“We’re going to make it perfectly clear to all of them on a repeated basis,” he said.
“And yes, we have a litmus test,” Ellison declared.
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“If you are a Democrat who doesn’t like a clean Dream Act, you’re gonna have some problems,” he warned. “And don’t count on me to protect you. You’re on your own with that!”
The DNC may be taking a hard line with candidates because its future political fortunes are tied to creating new voters.
That was indicated back in 2009, when then-SEIU Executive Vice President and a leader of the Democratic Socialists of America, Eliseo Medina, addressed the “America’s Future Now!” conference, saying:
Now as you know, the negative tone of the immigration debate has created intense interest in the Latino and immigrant community. We in the last election had the largest turnout of Latino voters in our history. And everything tell us these voters fully intend to become engaged into the elections in the future. They have tasted what it is like to participate and win and they are not going to go away. Because their involvement is basically because they feel that they are being taken advantage of, they are being singled out and they are being scapegoated.
Now, when…