The Cavalcante manhunt stirred up unsettling ideas about dangerous migrants | Sabrina Vourvoulias

My neighbors' social media posts about the Brazilian-born fugitive cited the need for a US border wall and stoked fear that he was a member of a drug cartel

My friend and I have been holding our breaths since Sunday.

That day, Danelo Cavalcante - a man convicted of murder who escaped from Chester county prison on 31 August - drove a stolen van into our neighborhood, ditched it behind a church, and was reportedly hiding out here. Suddenly the pretty but unassuming Pennsylvania places we call home - Glenmoore, East Nantmeal, South Coventry - were teeming with law enforcement teams, helicopters and news crews.

Sabrina Vourvoulias is a Latina author, journalist and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer