Thread. What is missing from the dialogue about the "Remain in Mexico" program, officially known as the ridiculous, Orwellian, "Migrant Protection Protocols," is ways it becomes nearly-impossible to give appropriate legal advice to asylum-seekers who are *terrified* because /1

they are at an imminent risk of danger & violence. I have been working with asylum-seekers for a decade, & am well-versed at coping with traumatized individuals telling me the horrific, intimate details of the reasons why they fled their home countries to seek asylum: /2