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As a result of these processes, both Mexico and the U.S. are facing new challenges and opportunities that are radically different of those observed in the past. What can be observe today are families that move between these two countries, enrolling their children at local schools. A fact that has shed more light on this phenomenon is by examining longitudinally the enrollment in American public schools. In September 2000 the public school in Dalton, Georgia, the first system in that state to be outgrown by a Latino population, enrolled more than 2,700 Hispanic students (51.5%), most of whom were born in Mexico1. As recently as 1989, the Hispanic student enrollment tallied 151, less than four percent of the K-12 enrollment (Hamann, 2003). In many other school districts, the ratio of Hispanic enrollment increased in an equivalently spectacular manner during the last two decades (Garcia, 2001).