Trump says 'Obama built the cages' that his administration has been using to lock up migrant children

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• President Donald Trump told Telemundo in an interview that aired Thursday that former President Barack Obama also detained migrant children in cages at the border.
• Though the Trump administration has long been criticized for last year's family separations and treatment of migrant children, the Obama administration also used those same cages.
• Images taken in 2014 show unaccompanied migrant children lying on the ground behind metal fencing, as they awaited processing at border facilities.
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President Donald Trump gave a combative interview with Telemundo that aired Thursday, falsely blaming former President Barack Obama for migrant family separations but accurately noting that the Obama administration also detained migrant children in cages at the border.

Much of the interview centered around the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy last spring that led to the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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