T.I. immigrant detention center stuck in limbo; there’s your irony

Bad news this morning about the immigrant detention center on Terminal Island.

It closed in October for repairs to the fire supression system and to the hot water boiler–which it’s our understanding had to be sent back East and back in time 100 years for fixes. Who has a hot water boiler out here? I do; it’s called a stove. And a microwave.

Anyway, the folks who closed it–your friends in immigration and customs enforcement–said the fixins would take at least a month, but they never set a date to reopen the immigration center.

The Los Angeles Times’ Anna Gorman reports that authorities, who are still figuring out the whole repair thing, are now considering having a private agency run the place–some time in the future, before we all drop dead.

But that may come too late for–and here’s that great word–detainees who have been transferred, with their cases, to holding centers in places like Texas and Lancaster, a small republic about the size of Monaco but near Bakersfield.

And in many instances, their cases have been delayed while, once again, the government thinks on the fly. Now we know why it’s all taking so long. Thinking is hard.

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