AFPI spokesperson: Reopening Alcatraz would take work

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00:00Okay, so it's a historic landmark as well, isn't it? And we were saying earlier on,

00:04before we crossed you, that tourists go there by the millions, by all accounts. So what would you

00:10like to see happen? I mean, should it be razed to the ground and should it be rebuilt? Because

00:14in its current state, it's unusable, isn't it? It's in tough shape. Even as a tourist attraction,

00:20Tom, there's a lot of work that has to go into it. Obviously, given the fact that it was last

00:25open as a prison was back in 1963, there's a lot of upgrades that would need to happen.

00:30From what President Trump has said, there would need to be a lot that needs to be redone,

00:34a lot of money that goes into it. But again, you go back to the cost of the border crisis over the

00:39last four years during the previous administration, the cost of deporting individuals, $17,000 a person.

00:46I think this is something where President Trump sees an investment opportunity because of the

00:50message that it sends, that we're tough on crime, whether you come here illegally or you're somebody

00:55that's an American citizen that's being released again and again on the streets. And we have very

00:59high recidivism rates. I think it sends a message to people to rethink what they are about to consider

01:05doing because they could end up at one of these places.