Illegal migrants were detained by the U.S. Coast Guard Southern California as part of Saturday's "alien expulsion flight operations."

The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a series of Alien Expulsion Flight Operations today, transporting undocumented individuals between California and Texas as part of the federal government’s intensified border enforcement efforts.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

In support of President Trump's executive orders, the Coast Guard will send additional resources to maritime borders, the military branch said Tuesday.

The effort is meant to “to deter and prevent a maritime mass migration from Haiti and/or Cuba,” according to a statement.

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated amid border, recruitment concerns, "erosion of trust," a senior DHS official confirmed to Fox News.

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 United States Coast Guard announced Wednesday it will immediately deploy additional vessels, aircraft, and specialized forces to bolster maritime

The Coast Guard is sending additional resources to at least four other maritime borders as well, including waterways around Florida.

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 U.S. Coast Guard started using the term “Gulf of America” to refer to the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, one day after President Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the process to