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Should US employers hire the millions of unemployed people with severe disabilities instead of illegal immigrants?

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Yes
67% 114 votes Total: 171 votes
No
33% 57 votes
  • 1 of 11

    by Jonathan Clayton

    Hiring Illegal Immigrants Instead of The Disabled Is this really a valid question? In my opinion, absolutely not! I have a very good reason for feeling the way I do. You se...read more

  • 2 of 11

    by Gerardine Baugh

    "Should US employers hire the millions of unemployed people with severe disabilities instead of illegal immigrants?" Yes! Yes! Yes! And Yes!..... Why can't we find a way t...read more

  • by K.D. Saffron

    Without a doubt all U.S. employers should aggressively hire any unemployed person with a "severe disability". The hiring of an illegal immigrant to do anything in this country i...read more

  • 4 of 11

    by Sherrill Fulghum

    I am writing under the yes category, but there are several problems with the question. For starters how do you define severe disability? There are many people with disabilitie...read more

  • by Gloria Allen

    By all means, U.S. employers should hire the millions of unemployed people with severe disabilities, instead of hiring illegal immigrants. And it makes me mad that apparently, t...read more

  • 6 of 11

    by Marc Phillippe Babineau

    I have been disabled for about 12 years now. The disability, a major spinal disease, has rendered me basically useless as far as any physical labor is involved. But, I'd like ...read more

  • 7 of 11

    by Lisa Steinbring

    Ok Ok....Stop thinking of people wearing helmets and drooling doing manual labor! There are many classifications of disability and as a matter of fact most of them are mental d...read more

  • 8 of 11

    by Bill Whitney

    To me this is sort of a stupid question. Of course we should be hiring and training any United states of America citizen rather than an illegal immigrant. The only thing we sh...read more

  • 9 of 11

    by Joseph Malek

    Dear Reader, for your information, it is against the law to hire illegal immigrants. Then again, President Bush and his Administration are doing little or nothing, in regard to ...read more

  • 10 of 11

    by Hal Lillywhite

    What does a disability mean? Maybe more important, what does it *not* mean. It does *not* mean that the person has no ability. It only means that he lacks some ability most o...read more

  • 11 of 11

    by Lisa Elliott

    I don't pretend to know or understand all the politics going on in our world today, in fact, alot of it is too much for one person to begin wrapping their mind around. That bein...read more

  • 1 of 6

    by Alex Kee

    Let's face the ugly facts, we all want to maintain our high standard of living and for that to happen, it takes a lot of hard work, for anything and everything if left on its ow...read more

  • 2 of 6

    by Marco Angioni II

    Although illegal immigrants are a problem that poses questions of security risks and economic impact, most of these people can physically work. If somebody has a severe disabil...read more

  • 3 of 6

    by Charlets

    Wait a minute! What are you talking about? You have to hire people with severe disabilities? Did you understand the word severe? Where can you find a person with severe disabili...read more

  • 4 of 6

    by Frances Simon

    While there may be millions of people with severe disabilities who currently do not hold jobs, it is highly unlikely forbidding the employment of illegal immigrants would change...read more

  • 5 of 6

    by Kila Morton

    The question of should US employers hire the millions of unemployed people with severe disabilities instead of illegal immigrants isn't the question we should be asking ourselve...read more

  • 6 of 6

    by Cathy Cuellar

    How in the world would this work? Are people with severe disabilities able to dig our ditches, climb our skyscrapers, finish our concrete, lay our bricks, serve us in restauran...read more

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