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 change its U.

The deployment was ordered after the Trump administration signaled its intent to rename the Gulf of Mexico and moved quickly to fire the Coast Guard commandant.

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 Coast Guard is adding to its force at the Gulf of Mexico and other spots in the wake of President Trump's firing of the service branch's commandant. The plan calls for stepping up the Coast Guard's presence in waterways approaching Florida and the maritime border around Alaska,

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.

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 Sector Corpus Christi is collaborating with the Texas Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network and Texas Parks and Wildlife to rescue sea

The US maritime law enforcement agency will be increasing its presence in Florida to detect and prevent migrants from Haiti and Cuba. It will also increase focus on maritime borders in Hawai and Alaska.

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.

U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.