Former adviser: Trump's executive order won't last 3 weeks

BY MARY TYLER MARCH - 06/24/18 10:32 AM EDT

Former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said Sunday that he doesn't believe President Trump's executive order ending family separations will "survive three weeks." The ex-Trump administration official told ABC's "This Week" that the order, which Trump signed last Wednesday, runs up against a 2015 ruling from a judge who said that even detaining families together was inhumane.

" …[T]his executive order the president put out to try to fix this problem is going to run headlong into the 9th Circuit judge that decided in 2015 that even detaining with parents is inhumane," Bossert said. "She called President Obama's policy of detaining children and parents together inhumane."

"There is no way this executive order survives first contact, because her view of President Trump will be harsher," he continued.

Trump signed the executive order amid intensifying backlash over his administration's "zero tolerance" policy. The policy aimed to aggressively prosecute migrants who crossed the southern border into the U.S. illegally, but quickly drew fire across party lines for separating thousands of migrant families.

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