A California sheriff has vented his frustration with the state's controversial sanctuary laws after a twice-deported criminal carried out a deadly crime spree, which ended with his suicide at the end of a 100mph police chase.
Gustavo Garcia, 36, died in an apparently intentional wrong-way crash in Porterville on Monday, after officials said he shot dead a gas station attendant, wounded two other people, carjacked farmworkers and robbed a convenience store at gunpoint.
The US immigration and Customs Enforcement later released a statement saying that Garcia's rampage 'could have been prevented' if the federal agency had been made aware of his release from jail on Friday, after he was picked up on a minor drug charge.