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Article snippet: MORE's executive order to halt his administration's practice of separating migrant families at the border dominated the Sunday show circuit this week, as the country's leaders grapple with the question of what comes next. Lawmakers and former White House officials weighed in on the immigration debate and Trump’s newly signed order, which sought to quell sharp criticism of his administration's "zero tolerance" policy that led to more than 2,000 migrant families being separated. Trump’s former homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, said on ABC's "This Week” that the recent news cycle was dominated by "gripping imagery and terrible optics" for the White House — some of which could have been avoided. Bossert defended the administration's zero tolerance policy, which prosecutes migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally. He added, however, that the country's detention centers did not have the resources to handle the number of immigrants being apprehended. "Although it's an understandable and righteous decision ... to prosecute any illegal entrant into the country, almost from the outset, we didn't have the capacity to detain these children, together or separately," he continued. The Trump administration drew widespread criticism this week as images surfaced of migrant children detained in caged holding centers and audio of children crying for their parents reverberated from social media to the House floor. Hoping to tamp down the growing wave of bipartisan outcry, Tr... Link to the full article to read more