Homero Luna left Mexico for Dalton, Ga., and a job in the poultry factory's killing line. Now, at 27, he is the owner of the weekly tabloid El Tiempo, with a circulation of 28,000 in north Georgia. And there are many others. They are completely entrepreneurial. But the reasons are complex, and finding solutions to that problem will be one of the fundamental challenges of the nation's education system.
Language remains a barrier, but the desire to learn English is clearly there.
Spanish-language TV has developed a large audience in the United States, with programming dominated by telenovelas produced in Mexico and other Latin countries. But the audience for Spanish broadcasting is made up almost entirely of adults. Children and teenagers prefer the English-language programs that others their age watch. And in many respects, Hispanics are no more homogeneous in their tastes than blacks and whites. Programmers have found that Mexican entertainment does not appeal to Cubans in Miami or Puerto Ricans in the New York area.