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ARRESTED: East Texas Deported Migrant
Charged with Five Murders in Custody

The previously deported Mexican national accused in the brutal murder of five Honduran migrants in Cleveland, Texas, is now in custody, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. A multi-agency task force took the fugitive into custody on Tuesday night near Cut & Shoot, Texas.

Sheriff Capers told Breitbart Texas that a team of U.S. Marshal Deputies, Texas Department of Public Safety CID agents, and Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC agents found Francisco Oropesa near Cut & Shoot early Tuesday evening. The arrest brought to an end, the four-day manhunt for the four-time deported Mexican national.
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Oropesa reportedly fled on foot after shooting and killing five Honduran neighbors late Friday night. Capers said search dogs tracked the man after finding a cell phone and some clothing but the dogs lost the track when the man entered the water. From that point, a massive manhunt began and the reward for his capture rose to $80,000.

The sheriff said they received leads from Maryland to Wyoming. However, a local tip brought the law enforcement team to Oropesa less than 20 miles from where the shooting took place.

While driving from Cut & Shoot to his jail with the suspect in his vehicle, Sheriff Capers said he wasn’t going to believe it was his suspect until he looked at the man’s tattoo and looked into his eyes.

Capers said he took off the arresting agent’s cuffs and “rolled up his sleeves and placed him in my cuffs.”

The case will now fall into the hands of San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon.

Hollywood Writers Go on Strike
Late Night Comedy Shows Including Jimmy Kimmel Hit Hardest

Hollywood writers walked off the job late Monday after the major studios failed to reach a new contract with the Writers Guild of America, throwing numerous TV shows and streaming series into jeopardy.

Among the hardest hit will be the late-night comedy shows, including those hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, who rely on teams of writers to think up their nightly monologues in which they frequently rail against conservatives and all things Trump.

The Writers Guild of America authorized the strike Monday night after negotiations with the studios and networks failed to produce an agreement. It will mark the first time Hollywood writers have walked off the job since the 2007-2008 strike, which lasted three months and brought the industry to a virtual standstill.

Hollywood writers, who could start picketing studios as early as Tuesday, are demanding more generous compensation as the streaming revolution continues to takeover the industry. The guild has argued that the shorter seasons favored by streaming services — with most shows having ten or fewer episodes per season — have been detrimental to writers, who must find work on multiple shows to make ends meet.

Streaming has also decreased the residuals writers get paid for their work on TV shows, since reruns and syndication are no longer as prevalent as they once were.

White House Caves: Joe Biden Asks
Kevin McCarthy to Negotiate Debt Limit

President Joe Biden on Monday finally requested that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) negotiate the debt limit during a meeting to be held on May 9 to avoid default, a move that contradicted the White House’s previous official position.

While traveling in Israel, McCarthy received a call from Biden to schedule a meeting to negotiate raising the debt limit after days of stonewalling tactics, Punchbowl News reported.

“We are not negotiating on this,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday. “We’ve been very clear on this.”

On Wednesday, McCarthy and House Republicans passed a bill to raise the debt limit. Reports indicated the Biden administration was taken by surprise when McCarthy successfully passed the bill. McCarthy’s unpredicted victory apparently left the Biden administration flat-footed.

 Nope, they're not negotiating anything. They're desperatelly pleading McCarthy to do them a favor.

Biden’s Interior Chief Unaware China Controls Minerals
to Make Batteries for Electric Cars

During a Senate hearing this week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) questioned Haaland about the Biden administration’s strict regulations that seek to boost electric vehicles over gas-powered vehicles.

The issue with the regulations, though, is that the materials needed to make electric vehicle batteries are controlled by China, as Breitbart News has extensively reported. Haaland, when asked by Hawley if she was knowledgeable of China’s controlling the supply chain for electric vehicle batteries, said she was unaware.

HAWLEY: On the subject of these sweeping mandates related to electric vehicles that the Biden administration has imposed, including for our military, the metals needed to make the lithium ion batteries in those vehicles are of course lithium, nickel, graphite, and cobalt. Now, can you tell me what nation is the largest producer of refined lithium in the world?

HAALAND: No I can’t.
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HAWLEY: It’s China. Do you know what nation is the largest exporter of natural graphite to the United States, globally?

HAALAND: No, Senator.

HAWLEY: It’s China. So in all of these instances, your decision to trade our energy security in favor of a radical climate change agenda is making us more and more dependent on China and at the same time, you are denying blocking mining, blocking permits for mining in this country that would allow us to develop nickel and copper and cobalt. Why? Why block the development of these resources in our nation in favor of making us dependent on China?

Last month, reports circulated that the Biden administration’s tax credits for electric vehicles made in the United States, Mexico, or Canada are “running into a problem” as China’s grip on the critical mineral supply chain grows stronger.

Specifically, China dominates a number of raw materials needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles such as graphite, lithium, and cobalt. By 2025, for instance, China is set to control about a third of all of the world’s lithium.

 What a knowledgeable interior chief she is indeed.

Venezuelan Migrant Describes Cartel Attack
on Border Encampment in Mexico

The migrant confirmed reports that members of the feared Gulf Cartel attacked the encampment last week. The migrant says the cartel members were angered by the Venezuelan migrants helping to ferry others across the Rio Grande using inflatable mattresses as makeshift rafts.
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Danny says he shot to send to family members in Venezuela, he shows the tents erected in the encampment located on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Danny describes, in Spanish, the primitive structures made of plastic materials. The materials, he explained were gathered in and around the Mexican border city. Neatly organized eating and cooking utensils and supplies are shown as well as a large grill the migrants used to prepare food.

Danny shows the aftermath of the cartel attack on the camp. He says the attack was carried out as retaliation for some migrants ferrying other migrants across the Rio Grande without compensating the drug and migrant smuggling cartel. Danny denied that people charged migrants money to ferry them across the river, although other reports indicate otherwise.

Danny describes the items taken from camp by the cartel, including the tents and provisions they had accumulated during their stay. Danny told Breitbart the cartel members entered the camp in the middle of the night on April 21 and began burning the tents and pursuing the fleeing migrants. Most of the migrants managed to escape into the darkness.

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South Korean Union Official Dies
After Setting Himself on Fire for May Day

A South Korean labor union official died in a Seoul hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire during a May Day protest. The official was evidently in distress over a pretrial hearing over extortion charges.

South Korean labor unions used the communist holiday of “International Workers’ Day” to press demands for higher wages, better benefits, and shorter working hours. The most militant of labor organizations, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), vowed to hold a general strike in July if its demands were not met.
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Union demonstrators were generally hostile to conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol, accusing him of union-busting and policies opposed to the labor establishment.
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The 50-year-old man who burned himself to death, identified by the surname “Yang” in South Korean media reports, was an officer in the Gangwon provincial chapter of the Korean Construction Workers’ Union (KCWU), which is affiliated with the KCTU.

Yang was the subject of a racketeering investigation launched in February. He allegedly participated in forcing construction companies to hire union members and pay exorbitant union expenses. Prosecutors reportedly intended to charge him with extorting almost $60,000 from construction companies over the past year.

Prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant for Yang last Wednesday. He was due to appear at Chuncheon District Court on Monday afternoon along with two other union leaders for “pre-arrest questioning.”