Study finds more Mexicans leaving the US than coming

Study finds more Mexicans leaving the US than coming

SAN DIEGO

More Mexicans are leaving than moving into the United States, reversing the flow of a half-century of mass migration, according to a study published Thursday.

The Pew Research Center found that slightly more than 1 million Mexicans and their families, including American-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico from 2009 to 2014. During the same five years, 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S., resulting in a net flow to Mexico of 140,000.

The desire to reunite families is the main reason more Mexicans are moving south than north, Pew found. The sluggish U.S. economic recovery and tougher border enforcement are other key factors.

The era of mass migration from Mexico is “at an end,” declared Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew’s director of Hispanic research.

3 Americans held by rebels freed

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates

Three Americans held captive by Shiite rebels in Yemen’s capital have been freed and were flown to neighboring Oman, Oman’s state news agency and officials in Yemen said Thursday.

The short English-language statement on the Oman News Agency said only that the U.S. State Department had asked Oman to bring the Americans out of the country. It did not elaborate or provide information on their identities.

However, independent security officials in Yemen and members of the Shiite rebels known as Houthis said the Americans had been detained for at least two months at a Houthi security building in the rebel-held capital of Sanaa.

Portraits of black faculty members defaced at Harvard

BOSTON

Portraits of several black professors were found vandalized at Harvard Law School on Thursday, a day after a campus rally for black students.

Black strips of tape were placed diagonally over at least five photo portraits, Harvard officials said. Students and professors noticed the tape as classes met Thursday morning at Wasserstein Hall, which houses two hallways lined with framed portraits of more than 180 professors.

All of the portraits that were targeted depict black professors, but some portraits of black professors appeared to be untouched. Harvard officials said they don’t know why some professors were singled out or who’s responsible.

FBI: Ex-reservist, a child-rape suspect, stole 16 Army guns

BOSTON

A former Army reservist out on bail on a child-rape charge broke into a Massachusetts armory last weekend and stole 16 guns, the FBI said Thursday, and he got caught because he was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet.

James Walker Morales, 34, of Cambridge, was arrested Wednesday on Long Island, N.Y. He’s scheduled to make an appearance in federal court today, according to the FBI.

Six M4 assault rifles and 10 Sig Sauer M11 handguns were stolen from the Lincoln Stoddard Army Reserve Center in Worcester last weekend. Surveillance video from a nearby business shows a man making several trips between the reserve center and a vehicle parked nearby over a six-hour period Saturday night into Sunday morning. On several occasions, he can be seen carrying duffel bags.

Associated Press