The Coast Guard started flying migrants to states along the border on Saturday. The Air Force is assigned to fly them out of the country.
Coast Guard orders forces
The U.S. Coast Guard will immediately “surge” personnel and equipment to areas along the U.S. border in response to executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, officials said in a news release.
In support of President Trump's executive orders, the Coast Guard will send additional resources to maritime borders, the military branch said Tuesday.
Coast Guard members opened fire off the coast of San Diego on a vessel smuggling people into the U.S. after two Mexican men on the boat attempted to evade a service patrol by ramming into them.
The U.S. Coast Guard has started calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin changing the name.
The US Coast Guard is taking President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant mandate seriously, announcing this week it will step up patrols in migrant-prone crossings.
The U.S. Coast Guard is increasing its presence in the waters off South Florida in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, signed his first day back in office, aiming to curb
The U.S. Coast Guard says it is deploying assets around maritime borders in support of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday night that it will be surging ships, boats and aircraft to South Florida and other areas of the country to bolster anti-maritime migration efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to use the nation’s military to defend the border.
The Coast Guard is sending additional resources to at least four other maritime borders as well, including waterways around Florida.
The move follows the dismissal of Coast Guard Commandant Linda Lee Fagan, the first military officer fired under Trump.