It's Thursday, August 7th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show shouting out the New Zealand Air Force
for rescuing three people from a U.S. research base in Antarctica,
despite the complete darkness of Antarctic winter and temperatures at minus 10 Fahrenheit.
On a related note, I will not be traveling to Antarctica in winter.
On today's show, Texas Dems face a bomb threat at their hotel as they protest redistricting votes.
And the Department of Homeland Security lifts age limits on immigration and customs enforcement officers and offers some major incentives.
But let's start by talking about the Terrorism Confinement Center, or SECOT.
That's the Salvadoran supermax prison to which the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants.
Officials allege these men were violent gang members with little evidence.
We are starting to hear the horror stories from some of the Venezuelan men who were sent there about four months ago,
until they were abruptly released last month in a prisoner exchange.
ProPublica published an interview with one of those men on Wednesday.
His name is Juan Jose Ramos Ramos.
He came to the U.S. legally during the Biden administration.
Ramos says he was in the middle of his immigration case when he was deported.
He says prior to his detention at Secat, he'd never been to jail in his life.
He says there, all the officers would come in and beat you.
Many times it was even the prison director who hit you.