Coast Guard surging assets to Gulf of America, other waterways to support Trump’s executive orders

The U.S. Coast Guard connected Tuesday announced the deployment of unit and instrumentality to assorted maritime borders successful the United States, a time aft President Donald Trump dismissed the subject branch's leader. 

In a statement, Coast Guard Acting Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday said seashore guardsmen would enactment to observe and deter amerciable migration successful enactment of Trump's enforcement orders issued this week. 

"The U.S. Coast Guard is the world’s premiere maritime instrumentality enforcement agency, captious to protecting America’s maritime borders, territorial integrity and sovereignty," Lunday said. "Per the President’s Executive Orders, I person directed my operational commanders to instantly surge assets—cutters, aircraft, boats and deployable specialized forces—to summation Coast Guard beingness and focus…"

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Key areas wherever authorities volition absorption their efforts include the waters off Florida to deter and forestall migrants from Haiti and Cuba from entering the U.S., and maritime borders astir Alaska, Hawaii, arsenic good arsenic the U.S. territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, American Somoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

Lunday besides wrote successful the merchandise that the bureau would people the "maritime borderline betwixt Texas and Mexico successful the Gulf of America." 

On Monday, Trump signed an enforcement bid renaming the Gulf of Mexico. In the federal enforcement order: "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness," Section 4 rebrands the "area formerly known arsenic the Gulf of Mexico… an integral plus to our erstwhile burgeoning federation …and an indelible portion of America" – arsenic the "Gulf of America."

The notation appears to beryllium the archetypal clip a national bureau has acknowledged the sanction change.

The Coast Guard said it would besides people the Bahamas and South Florida, and betwixt the U.S. and Mexico successful the Pacific Ocean. 

In addition, the Coast Guard volition enactment U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities connected maritime portions of the southwest U.S. border.

"Together, successful coordination with our Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense teammates, we volition detect, deter and interdict amerciable migration, cause smuggling and different violent oregon hostile enactment earlier it reaches our border," a quality merchandise states. 

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On Monday, Trump besides issued a flurry of enforcement orders cracking down connected amerciable immigration. 

Among the galore charges was the termination of Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, 61, who was fired by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman.

Huffman didn't mention a crushed for the dismissal, but a elder DHS authoritative told Fox News that Fagan was removed for nonaccomplishment to code borderline information threats, insufficient enactment successful recruitment and retention, mismanagement successful acquiring cardinal acquisitions specified arsenic icebreakers and helicopters, excessive absorption connected diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and an "erosion of trust" implicit the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard's interior probe into intersexual battle cases astatine the Coast Guard Academy.

Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this report.