In the first Trump administration, the Remain in Mexico policy (formally called the "Migrant Protection Protocols") sent tens of thousands of asylum seekers to dangerous and inadequate conditions in Mexico to await their asylum hearings. These asylum seekers often had to wait for months in parts of Mexico the U.S. State Department classified as extremely dangerous, where many of them were kidnapped, extorted, raped, and even murdered. Because they were in Mexico, they had a much harder time locating a U.S. immigration attorney to help them prepare for their asylum hearing, and the vast majority of people subjected to Remain in Mexico did not have legal counsel for a complicated process in which their lives were often on the line. The Remain in Mexico program also gave far too much discretion to front-line Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents to determine whether to apply exceptions for children, people in medical emergencies, and asylum seekers with other pressing circumstances.