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"Children in cages" happened under Obama as well near the end of his second term. NGOs started bussing migrant caravans to the border and there was no capacity to process that many arrivals. So they ended up in caged holding areas (along with their parents, or whatever adult was accompanying them).
Under Trump there was an even larger wave. A liberal judge made a ruling that migrants couldn't be held for more than a short period, I believe 3 days, unless the government arrested them arrested them for illegal entry.
It wasn't possible to process them in that time, so the Trump admin decided to start arresting them for illegal entry.
An arrest requires parents to be separated from children. You don't throw kids in jail with their parents, you send them to some sort of social services.
Given the numbers and the short period the services set up for the children were unsurprisingly not adequate.
Congress wouldn't give additional funding, so the situation was hard to improve.
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