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The prison escape story of illegal alien Danelo Cavalcante is the warning shot—the Paul Revere’s ride—of even more disastrous results of open borders and the forced busing of migrants to U.S. cities.
From New York City to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, local residents are beginning to rise up against the unfairness of migrants taking over hotels, military bases and schools as American citizens in need of government help like the homeless (especially homeless veterans) are told to fend for themselves.
The duration (14 days) and expense of that manhunt (still being calculated) included the use of thermal imagery, extensive ground searches by over 250 law enforcement personnel, and K-9’s.
The story of Cavalcante’s escape from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania, in which he “crabwalked” between two walls and then slithered through razor wire, attained mythic status among some while inspiring fear among Chester County residents, including the closure of schools as well as the botanical estate known as Longwood Gardens.
Wanted for a 2017 murder in his home country of Brazil, Cavalcante fled to Puerto Rico, then entered the United States, eventually migrating to the Phoenixville area in Chester County where he began a relationship with a fellow Brazilian, Deborah Brandao. He then murdered her outside her home in 2021 by stabbing her 38 times in front of her children.
Sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder, Cavalcante was sent to Chester County Prison pending plans to transfer him upstate to serve out his sentence.
Chester County, it should be noted, is the richest county in Pennsylvania. The county was once almost solidly Republican, although that changed in 2019 when the so-called “blue wave” altered control of the County’s Board of Commissioners in favor of Democrats for the first time in history.
In the 2020 Presidential election, almost 60% of Chester County residents voted for Biden, as opposed to 40.7% for Donald Trump.
Since then it has been an easy-election-win utopia for careerist Democrats.
Culturally, the towns in the county closest to Philadelphia are the bluest, with woke sentiments—support for Black Lives Matter, multi-gender pronoun usage, and climate change protests—tending to dissipate as one moves westward towards Downingtown and Lancaster, although even this demographic is changing.
(Lancaster City is Democrat-controlled, which means that crime there is higher than the national average, while relatively crime-free Lancaster County, with its vibrant Amish population, tends to be conservative and Republican.)
Chester County Prison, where Cavalcante was imprisoned before his escape, has a sanctuary city-inspired policy stating that it will not detain a suspect “solely because of an accusation of being here illegally.”
Before she was murdered on the lawn in front of her home in Phoenixville (another Democrat-controlled city with a crime problem), Brandao had a restraining order against Cavalcante.
This begs the question: why wasn’t Cavalcante deported the moment authorities realized they weren’t dealing with a legal U.S. citizen?
No doubt this was a known fact when he was apprehended in Virginia and then extradited to Pennsylvania to be tried for his crimes.
Two local media outlets, PhillyVoice and The Philadelphia Inquirer, reported the story as an extreme example of violent domestic abuse, but neglected to inform readers that Cavalcante had entered the United States illegally.
This, of course, is a “minor” omission that we have come to expect of left-leaning publications.
It is still confounding, considering that Brandao filed a protection from abuse order in 2020 which should have brought Cavalante’s name before authorities in bright lights and then alerted them to his illegal status.
After all, if Cavalante was deemed enough of a threat by the court when it came to domestic abuse, why wasn’t he reported to ICE for deportation when that other fact about him became known?
The answer is simple: Chester County officials chose Cavalcante over public safety and Brandao’s life.
“Another troubling angle of this story, beyond how corrupt the country’s Democratic Party-run sanctuary cities and counties are,” Breitbart News reported, “is how equally corrupt the Democratic Party-run mainstream media is.”
Especially in Philadelphia, which became a Sanctuary City in 2014, a time when the lines between legal and illegal immigration were beginning to blur.
Post 2014, during the first years of the Trump Administration, as Philadelphia was putting the polish on its “No Human is Illegal” circus act, “Abolish ICE” demonstrations began to appear in front of Independence Hall.
The erosion between legal and illegal immigration was by now very nearly complete in the City of Brotherly Love.
In the meantime, Americans were being taught by the mainstream left-corrupted press how to correct themselves when it came to talking about immigration.
The term illegal alien, once fairly common in daily newspapers, was now viewed as “insensitive.”
The New York Times in 2017 described how the use of “unauthorized” and “undocumented” are acceptable descriptions of immigrants while “illegal” and “alien,” when used as nouns, are “off the table entirely.”
It was all downhill from there.
When social movements change language to suit a specific agenda, the end result is often generalized ambiguity or perverted narratives.
As a socialist acquaintance of mine said recently, “There’s no reason why we can’t invite all migrants in. Everybody who wants to enter can come, because we have great stretches of empty land in Wyoming and Montana where they can go. We have the room!”
The truth is, an undocumented immigrant is not an immigrant at all because the word “immigrant,” when understood historically, implies an intention to pursue a serious path to citizenship.
The opposite of this would be a stampede of invaders rushing across the Rio Grande border to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”
When Cavalcante tore through (red-to-blue) Chester County, residents (mostly Biden voters) expressed real fear on social media, offering videos of U.S. Army personnel walking through woodsy residential backyards in scenes that recalled old film clips of American troops in South Vietnam.
Many stated quite openly that they were feeling afraid, that they weren’t going out at night, and were putting double locks on their doors.
And yet not a single person posted anything about Cavalcante’s illegal alien status, and how all this could have been avoided were Joe Biden not in the White House.
Most saw the manhunt as a hunt for a dangerous murderer rather than something to be expected when, as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) noted, you allow 16.8 million illegal aliens to reside “legally” in the United States, and when that illegal alien population increased 16 percent nationwide during the first two years of Biden’s presidency.
It was Biden, after all, who during the 2020 campaign pledged to extend amnesty to illegal aliens. He kept that promise in spades beginning on his first day as president when he sent an immigration bill to Congress that included an amnesty program pledging to give illegal aliens a path to citizenship.
And this paved the way for Cavalcante to settle in Phoenixville and strike up a romantic relationship with Deborah Brandao — that ended in her bloody murder.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Bidens Crimes Against America this whole Invasion of America from other Nations its all part of the New World order no doubt the UN/CFR invasion with the DNC along for this Acts of Treason
Fred A. says
I will always use the term ‘Illegal Aliens’ because that is the proper term for these people. The incorrect term of using ‘illegal immigrants’ or ‘undocumented workers’ by the media is a joke. They come to take, not contribute, and the American people better wake up to that fact. The American people have no idea how much crime they commit in this country.
Biden said when campaigning that he was going to make whites a minority in America and he was not kidding. It was one of those rare occasions when he told the truth. For those who voted for Biden, you have no one to blame but yourselves. America will become a third world country and that’s a fact. The Republican and Democratic Party will destroy this country. So get use to a lower standard of living and poverty as far as the eyes can see. Millions and millions of illegal aliens are going to pour into this country with little or no education and little or no skills. You think things are getting worse in America, this is just the beginning of a terrible life we will have to endure in the future. When we reach the final stage of a declining society, there will be no peace for anyone.
David Ray says
Good point. I hadn’t heard him say he’d put evil whitey in the minority.
It doesn’t surprise me, in that I’ve heard several leftists express that same sentiment; especially college professors.
(Once a professor in a bullshit desheeki said “we have to kill all white people”. The video has long disappeared from YouTube.)
Biden aslo swerved into the truth on another occasion with a Freudian slip – “. the most inclusive & expansive voter fraud team”
He meant that also; he just wasn’t supposed to blurt out out loud.
Fred A. says
David:
He said the same thing in 2017 as well. There is a video of him making that statement.
The United States just pass the 33 trillion dollars national debt level. The country borrowed one trillion dollars in the last three months. The interest on the national debt also passed the one trillion dollar mark over the last 12 months. The projected budget deficit for 2024 which begins October 1. 2023 to September 30, 2024 will be around 1.6 trillion dollars. The one issue everyone should be concern about is whether the United States will default on that debt in the future? In my opinion, it is not a question of if, but when it will happen.
Thought you might like to know those statistics.
David Ray says
Thanks for the heads-up.
One astute radio host broke down the exact cost to a “per person” amount. That per person stat included every man, woman, and child. (The reason was to demonstrate that our children were also strapped with the debt.)
It was a staggering high five figure (back in jug-eared Barry’s last term). Now it’s reaching the impossible, as you’ve shown.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Me too definitely. I was a legal alien until my naturalization test and citizenship. A legal alien is one who comes legally, with letters of clearance from hometown police commanders, making legal application, paying legal fees, passing a simple i.q. test, etc. The leftists try to change language to fit their agenda.
Is Chester County a sanctuary county? Or maybe i miss something. Gov Abbott should send a few dozen busloads of illegal aliens to Chester County so they may realize the consequence of their stupidity regarding ‘sanctuary’ status.
Definitely, what the Biden Admin is doing with immigration is a high crime and treasonous.
Aebe says
C’mon, man, the Dimly Lit will tell you that illegal aliens commit the same percentage of crimes that criminal ‘Americans’ commit.
But not a word about how many crimes they do commit.
Constitutional~Carry
Kasandra says
I never understood the “no person is illegal” mantra. It’s nonsensical. No person is “illegal” but many people do illegal things. That makes them “criminals”, not “illegal.” And they can, as in Cavalcante’s case, also be illegal aliens, a fact never mention by ABC, CBS, or NBC in their newscasts prior to his capture.
Jeff says
This is why he should be impeached. He is a threat to America and our sovereignty. People will be dying due to his treasonous actions opening the border to a hoard of single, military age invaders.
Aebe says
Impeaching Bidum is as pointless as the dimmish impeachments of President Trump, when the senate will not convict such a creature as the installed one is.
Justin Swingle says
MEXICAN CRIME IN CALIFORNIA, A COLONY OF MEXICO
1.) CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in America. One-third to one-half of the inmates are illegals from Mexico.
2.) Nearly half the murders in CA are committed by Mexican gangs (source: former Attorney General of CA, Kamala Harris).
3.) The Los Angeles Sheriff’s dept is infested with Mexican gangs. There is no real attempt to cleanse these thugs out of the force.
4.) Nearly 95% of the warrants for murder in Mexico’s second largest city of Los Angeles are for Mexicans (source: Heather Mac Donald).
5.) Of the top 200 most wanted criminals on the Los Angeles Police roster, 186 are currently noted as Hispanic, and probably Mexican illegals.
6.) When former CA gov Jerry Brown appointed Mex separatist Xavier Becerra as A.G. of CA, the first act of the new A.G. was to delete from the State’s A.G.’s website the list of CA’s mot wanted criminals. They were all Mexicans.
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s
Justin Swingle says
“This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us.” PATRICIA McCARTHY
Justin Swingle says
MEX MURDERS MOTHER IN PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM’S ! SANCTUARY ! CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO!
Steinle’s murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
“While walking with her father on a pier in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s arms.”
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In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don’t act right now.
Paul says
If the 2024 presidential election came down to two candidates—Trump or Cavalcante—I wonder how many leftist Democrats would vote for Cavalcante…
Justin Swingle says
Migrant Released by Biden Admin Arrested for Texas Border Town Murder
Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber told Breitbart Texas during an interview on Tuesday night the alleged murder occurred on Cotorra Street and Progresso Avenue in the Loma Bonita neighborhood on Monday at around 9:30 a.m. The investigation began after a man was discovered bludgeoned to death in the backyard of a home in the neighborhood. According to Sheriff Schmerber, the unnamed victim is a 40-year-old Houston man.
ed says
Not a word was said on the “news”
Degüello says
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the invitation to cross our borders and come here illegally has been so pervasively extended that nothing is going to slow it down short of a border wall and extensive repatriation of those already here. Starting with miscreants, but moving on to all who are here extra-legally. At the present, it is worth chancing it to come up to and including thousand$ in payment for right-of-passage to inhuman Mexican cartels. Make it apparent it is a waste of time and money to come here and the flow will slacken to a trickle.
ed says
Coming to a ‘hood near you
If it hasn’t already
And Biden must go
Sir Peter says
Undocumented Democrat voters
Sir Peter says
Whilst we on the topic of correct terminology, As well as using the correct term ‘illegal aliens’ for these invaders let’s replace’ ‘ gay’, ‘Pride flag’ and ‘transgender’ with the more accurate ‘homosexual’, ‘perversion flag’ and ‘cross dressing deviate’.
All the language is being imposed on us by ‘communists’. Not ‘the elite’.
Barb Macdonald says
Thank you, Thom, for a comprehensive review of the Danelo Cavalcante siege. No, Josh Shapiro never mentioned that he was an illegal immigrant in his presser after Koda took a bite out of crime that day. No one mentioned that the Chester County Commissioners and Fredda Maddox decimated the Chester County K-9 unit 3 years before. Margaret Reif, the Controller, was more interested in going after Harry Mackinney, the Deputy in charge of the 8 dog strong K-9 unit because his girlfriend, Sheriff Bunny Welsh, sat at Trump’s side in pressers at the White House. At the first Town Hall meeting on Monday, DA Deb Ryan and Sheriff Fredda Maddox did not feel the need to attend. Both are running for Judge positions in November. Maybe the cocktail fundraisers were more important? The Prison Board hires Howard Holland, the former Chief of Police in Downingtown, with no correctional/prison experience prior to the former Warden’s exit the day before the great escape. Interesting coincidence that Josh Maxwell was Mayor of Downingtown for 3 terms… So, 500 LE are working 24/7. They call in the Border Patrol from Texas and bring Koda. Apparently not needed at the border since it is open now. Interesting that ICE arrested DC’s sister because she was uncooperative and her visa had expired and is awaiting deportation. Why wasn’t the assassin hunted down by ICE after his girlfriend placed a POA on him? We the people of Chester County have had enough of the Democratic ‘leadership’ and want our County and K-9’s back. Enough! Love to see the final cost of this debacle. The PA taxpayers will probably have to foot this bill too! Open borders have consequences. Danelo Cavalcante was our personal experience with this policy. Thank you again for your coverage.
Roark says
The gift that keeps on killing.
p38ace says
I prefer the tern violent foreign criminal. The alternative is Visigoths.