Trump says 'Obama built the cages' that his admini

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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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The Trump administration has often come under scrutiny for using the cages to detain migrants, though a lesser-known detail is that those same cages have been used for years, albeit under different circumstances.

Last summer, for instance, images went viral showing young migrant children lying sprawled on flimsy mattresses, caged behind the metal fencing. Though critics rushed to condemn the Trump administration, it quickly emerged that the images were from 2014, during the Obama administration, and that the children had arrived at the border unaccompanied and were awaiting processing in the facilities.

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