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

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 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.

Veterans who were found by a judge to have been illegally retired from the Coast Guard have now accused the service of using a process to miscalculate and lower the back pay and benefits owed to them.

North Texas remains under a cold weather advisory until 9 a.m. After that, Wednesday warms up to the upper 40s and low 50s.

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 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.

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