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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.