Is America a Solution or a Mixture?

In chemistry, solutions bond to create something new, mixtures fall apart if they are not constantly stirred.

Illegal aliens will never vote in American elections, or so we are told.

Due to the Constitution’s process of apportioning seats in the House by population, illegal aliens don’t have to vote (even though they are voting) to change the political landscape. Nobody knows that better than the Great Replacement Democrats:

“Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring that the U.S. Census Bureau factor in all residents, including noncitizens, as part of its decennial calculation of the U.S. population. As a result, the apportionment of House seats and, therefore, electoral votes for presidential elections, could be swayed as migrants continue to pour over the southern border.”

This is nothing new. It reminded me of this story from all the way back in 2012:

“An illegal immigrant born in Mexico appears to qualify for a law license, though the Florida Board of Bar Examiners says it still wants an advisory opinion from the state Supreme Court before making a final decision.

The board initially denied Jose Godinez-Samperio’s admission to the bar but asked the justices to decide whether being an illegal immigrant disqualifies applicants. The new findings submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday are the result of a request by Godinez-Samperio to consider new information related to his character and fitness before the Supreme Court makes its decision.”

I thought it should be a simple issue to resolve. Mr. Godinez-Samperio’s scholastic achievements are laudable – but that changes nothing regarding his legal status in this country. He is illegal by any definition of the term.

In 2013, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Godinez-Samperio was ineligible to practice law in Florida due to the federal prohibition against illegal aliens holding an American law license.

And then, against all reason, the Florida legislature passed a bill to allow him to practice within the state. That Bill was signed into law by the then Governor, now Senator, Rick Scott, a Republican.

At the time, I remember people saying (as they claim today),  “this country was built on immigrants/we must support diversity”.  I remember wondering how diversity was accretive to anything beneficial in this case. At the time, my daughter had just graduated from law school as I recall, the job market was not good. Good person or not, how does positioning an illegal non-citizen to practice law help any legal citizen who is a recent law school graduate? How does this “diversity” help and “enrich” them?

“Diversity” has had too long of a run without critical examination. Academia loves it, as do the quota-mongers in government. It is used to defend illegal immigration but “diversity” for the sake of being diverse has just become a way for progressives to send up the “look at me, look how evolved and tolerant I am” virtue signaling, but it isn’t “tolerance” at all. It has taken the place of merit and is merely a check in the box of the job application.

Progressives think that tossing a bunch of different colored marbles in a glass bowl automatically creates unity. That’s simply not true.

In my mind, there are two types of diversity (with definitional roots in the science of chemistry). These are what I would term to be solution diversity and mixture diversity – and the two are very different.

The technical definition of solution is this: a solution is a homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase. What you have here is a solute and a solvent combining to form something entirely new with properties different from the constituent parts. Solutions cannot be separated into their individual parts after they are mixed.

I would propose that this is the type of diversity that we want, that this is very beneficial to our country. This is the historical diversity of the American Colonies and post-Revolutionary War America. It is the diversity of Ellis Island, and the genesis of America was a “melting pot”. People brought their varied heritages with them but ultimately blended and combined to catalyze into Americans – not Italian Americans, German Americans, or Mexican Americans – just Americans.

While they maintained a fondness for their origins, they subjugated that fondness to the love, devotion, and loyalty to their new home.

A mixture is a material system made up of two or more different substances which are mixed but are not combined chemically. The materials are in suspension and the heavier particulates will fall out of solution the minute the energy from the mechanical mixing action stops.

This is the “diversity” we have today as evidenced by disparate groups with allegiance to foreign countries, racial identities, and anti-Americanism, they are intent on destroying America, even as they enjoy the benefits of living here. When applied to people who refuse to assimilate, who retreat to cloistered areas and resume the same customs and lifestyles as their old countries, most refusing to even learn America’s common language, it is clearly a mistake to assume that all people who come here legally or illegally are here to become part of America.

It takes force, coercion, and energy to hold this brand of false unity together.

The common excuse for illegal immigration from Mexico, Central America, and now, the rest of the world is economic. Once these illegal aliens satisfy their economic goals, they have no need to assimilate – being here illegally also creates a secretive culture, assuring that assimilation will never take place. Legal immigration assures that the people who come to America are coming because they desire to become an American, not simply as a method by which to satisfy an economic want, need, or desire. There is a purpose for the process of legal immigration that transcends simple protection of sovereignty.

Creating diversity for its own sake creates a mixture, not a solution.

Mixtures are weak and eventually break down. Solutions do not.