Alcatraz is the brand known around the world for being effective at housing people that are in incarceration,” Burgum said of the island facility in the San Francisco Bay.

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released.

The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office later hit back at AG Pam Bondi by referencing the ongoing controversy over the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.