OPINION:
Financial news reports have AT&T leaping across the border to help create the potential for a greater middle class in Mexico with the purchase of Iusacell, a wireless company that has 8.6 million subscribers and a network that covers 70 percent of Mexico’s population (“AT&T says it will buy Mexico’s Iusacell for $1.8B,” Web, Nov. 7).
Reforms by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto were a factor in AT&T’s decision to buy the company, according to company officials. With refugees in this country who crossed the border complaining of the need to keep families together, what better time than right now for our government to negotiate social reforms with Mexico to provide employment and housing for this deserving population?
Given the unemployment numbers in this country among black Americans, especially veterans, some consideration should be given to diversity to support this population as well.
SELBY PARKER SR.
Clinton, Miss.
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