“America must not be overwhelmed”: A century-old warning revisited

By Tom Anthony | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who penned the lion’s share of the Constitution, is perhaps the most stellar example of the philosophy of America as a meritocracy, having been the illegitimate son of a Caribbean storekeeper who rose to become George Washington’s Adjutant and the first Secretary of the Treasury. He said this about immigration:

“Foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or, if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty so essential to real republicanism?” (“Examinations of Jefferson’s Message to Congress of December 7th, 1801,” Jan. 12, 1802)

America is an amalgam of races rather than being nicely homogeneous like Norway or Ghana. This dynamic used to be a source of good-natured genetically inspired humor rather than cause for instantaneous backlash. The so-called melting pot of people who migrated here between 10,000 years ago and Trump’s second term made up a steel of key alloys rather than a stew for the compost heap.

The American Reconquista is the effort by the Democrats to help the Catholic, Spanish-speaking countries re-take the lands lost in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1846 (which also includes Texas, which was lost ten years earlier). 

The loss of California, 350 years after Cortez got it for the Crown and Pope, was particularly galling, as Americans found gold two years later after having paid Santa Anna $15 million as part of that Treaty. 

Hard to imagine a nation that had been hauling treasure from the New World for hundreds of years stepping over Sutter’s Mill, but it happened. Let’s add that PeMex has been eyeing the oil fields of Texas since Ford gave up on ethanol (adiós, Pancho Villa).

Note: We all have to suspend belief, as usual, that Native Americans had any property rights once a particular flag got raised on some European land claim, particularly if it was backed by a Papal Bull.

To continue, all this came to a head at the end of the Biden Administration when the lame duck president rescinded the Windfall Elimination Provision and rewarded the Teachers’ Union and its constituents with up to $150 billion in new benefits through what critics called a Windfall Enhancement Program.

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, repealing the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), along with the Government Pension Offset (GPO), carries significant financial implications for the Social Security program. Repeal could cost nearly $150 billion over the first ten years, advancing the projected depletion date of Social Security’s trust fund from 2035 to 2034, or possibly earlier—a move critics have described as regressive because it allows double dipping.

The repeal, enacted through the Social Security Fairness Act signed into law on January 5, 2025, also includes retroactive benefits payments back to January 2024 for those previously affected by the WEP. 

The Social Security Administration completed adjustments to monthly payments in February 2025 and finished distributing retroactive payments by July 2025, with a total of $17 billion paid out across 3.1 million retroactive payments to individuals impacted by both the WEP and GPO.

It’s typical of the public school system “doublespeak” to call their enormous windfall “The Social Security Fairness Act” when the CBO calls it “regressive.” This jibes with the teaching that boys are girls, medical freedom involves forced injections, and it’s ok for melanin-challenged kids to be passed over.

The Teacher’s Union Lobby managed to succeed in their goal of relieving the taxpayers of another $150 billion using a few tabloid police and firefighter stories (and well placed donations) to sell the necessary congressional seats. 

The payback is the Democrat loyalty of the public school teachers, bought with tax money, who consistently support open borders as the means of filling classroom seats (and voting booths) in lieu of American births, which have fallen below replacement since 2008 due to the pedagogical mechanism of telling girls the worst thing they can do for global warming is have a baby. 

Americans wanting children = Bad, but Sneak in and have a baby = Good. 

They join 80% of the lawyers, 70% of the doctors, 92% of the college professors and 80% of government employees in supporting the Democrat (and Colorado AG and aspiring Governor, Weiser’s, who has sued Trump over 50 times) goal of scrapping the border and eliminating any distinction between citizens and others. 

The tidal wave of some 14 million illegal immigrants allowed to swarm the nation after “Trump’s Wall” got sold in pieces for scrap helped boost Medicaid spending to new heights, drive blue-collar wages for American workers down to 1970s levels, and fill schools with bilingual teachers.

According to an August 2025 Pew Research Center report, the unauthorized immigrant population grew by 3.5 million between 2021 and 2023, reaching a record 14 million. 

Nobody need call the Reconquista “racist,” since La Raza recently got Columbus Park in Denver re-named “La Raza Park.”

White children make up only 22.6% of the student body in Denver Public Schools, but due to racist budgeting, receive proportionately lower public funding for their education.

All racial groups are welcome in normal Chambers of Commerce, but how about Black, Asian, and Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, (and La Raza parks?).

Are taxpayers—who funded the nation, had parents and grandparents fight in the last two World Wars, paid for the highway and infrastructure system, public welfare, and judicial and education infrastructure—now to be supplanted by whoever wants to sneak across the border courtesy of the Democrats, who once supported labor unions by helping pass restrictive immigration laws rather than blocking enforcement?

Samuel Gompers, Founder and President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) once teamed with the Democratic Party to slow immigration, saying this:

“America must not be overwhelmed. Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces and, in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. One of these is composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength (broad backs) at the lowest possible wage …The other is composed of racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country.” (Letter to Congress, March 19, 1924)

Democrats, whose Party bucked the first Republican President, Lincoln, now represent white collar cartels such as the lawyers who never saw a statute they didn’t love, and public “servants,” whose retirement packages guarantee slavery to the rest of the population in perpetuity. 

The good news is the Teacher retirement programs can be phased out by replacing the public schools with AI computer instruction, and focus on sports teams as the means of socialization skills. But still, we have over $11 trillion programmed into teacher retirement even if AI takes over next year.

Tom Anthony was President of the Elyria Neighborhood Association during most of its 15 year fight to get I-70 buried. He incorporated CLEAN-IT (Citizens Loving their Environment And Neighborhood Invincible Together) the organization which successfully sued the EPA to get the 6 acre radioactive concrete monolith removed from 1805 South Bannock Street in Denver, the only time in its history the EPA has reversed a completed Record of Decision. The City of Denver removed him from his home of 18 years in 2017 after falsely accusing him of breaking a zoning law, to wit, storing building materials out of doors in the Industrial Mixed Use zone.

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