Trump responds to immigration topic during Democratic debate

Published August 1, 2019 2:09am ET



President Trump appeared to be watching this week’s second Democratic presidential debate, tagging debate host CNN in a tweet critiquing former President Barack Obama’s immigration policy.

“The cages for kids were built by the Obama Administration in 2014. He had the policy of child separation. I ended it even as I realized that more families would then come to the Border! @CNN” Trump tweeted about two hours into the sparring.

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