discussion has been particularly intense when an illegal alien has been arrested for a minor offense and is known to be in the country illegally is released because the jurisdiction where he was arrested is a sanctuary city that limits police cooperation with u.s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice,) and goes on to commit a new crime. examples include the 2018 tulare county spree shooting, where the suspect had previously served time in american prisons and been deported twice before being arrested on a misdemeanor and released under california sanctuary law sb54 the day before he killed two and wounded seven in a spree shooting.