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.

Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart also briefly mentioned the shoddy conditions in which migrant children have been detained, which include large chainlink cages in certain Border Patrol processing facilities.

Díaz-Balart noted that many immigrants and Hispanic-Americans want the Trump administration to crack down on certain areas of the immigration system — mainly when it comes to deporting MS-13 gang members — but that they’re not in favor of harsh treatment towards migrant children and families.

“Those people are the first ones that want MS-13 removed, but they don’t want to see families separated at the border, they don’t want to see children in cages,” Díaz-Balart said.

“Obama built the cages,” Trump responded. “I didn’t build them. Obama built them.”

Trump in his Telemundo interview sought to blame Obama for the family separations as well, but the Obama administration did not have a policy around large-scale separation of migrant families. The thousands of children separated from their parents last year were separated entirely due to Trump policies.

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