'Obama built the cages': Trump tells Telemundo that he inherited the migrant crisis

President Trump doubled down on his prior assertion that the migrant crisis at the southern border of the United States was a problem he inherited from the previous administration, in an interview that aired Thursday night on Telemundo, his first on a Spanish-language network.

"Obama built the cages. I didn’t build them," Trump said. "Obama separated; I'm the one who brought them together."

Responding to the accusation that he had been very tough on immigrants, Trump took umbrage at the terms of the question. "You mean 'illegal' immigrants. I've been very good to immigrants, but illegal immigrants, yeah ... our laws are so bad ... the asylum laws are laughed at by anybody in the world who knows anything."

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