On Sunday afternoon, CNN Newsroom twice ran a report filed by correspondent Sara Sidner in which she focused on Jamiel Shaw, Sr., a man whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant who had not been handed over to ICE for deportation despite a previous violent criminal record.

At about 3:35 p.m ET, after recalling Shaw's story and President Donald Trump enacting some of Shaw's ideas, Sidner ended up pushing to undermine his concerns about illegal immigrants by misleadingly citing studies finding that immigrants generally are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born population, But she did not mention studies specifically about illegal immigrants which find that they are substantially more likely to commit crimes than the general population.

After the report recalled that President Trump was creating a division in the Homeland Security Department to deal with victims of crime by immigrants, leading to boos from Democrats, Sidner showed a clip of Shaw complaining that their behavior was an "insult" and that President Barack Obama had spent tax dollars to help illegal immigrant children called "Dreamers."

Shaw was then seen complaining: "The Dreamer murdered my son. He was brought here by no fault of his own, you know, he grew up to be 19, and he murdered somebody. So you can't just say blanket that all Dreamers are good people."

Sidner followed up: "But critics of Trump's immigration stance say his focus is misplaced, pointing to several studies listed by the CATO Institute all showing 'immigrants are less crime-prone than' those who are native-born."

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The CNN correspondent repeated crime statistics on immigrants generally without noting that the numbers are different for the illegal population specifically as she concluded her report:

One of those studies looking at census data from 1980, 1990, and 2000, showed that immigrants as a whole have incarceration rates that are one-fifth those of native-born Americans. But Mr. Shaw says statistics wouldn't matter to you if it was your child that was killed. The man who killed his child was sentenced to death and is serving time in San Quentin prison here in California.

The same piece ran a few hours later on CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown:

Below is a complete transcript of the report from the Sunday, March 5, CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield: