The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 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 official name.

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.

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 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

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

Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Justin McGowan had thousands of eyes on him Tuesday as he was one of the first people to guard former President Jimmy Carter’s casket

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.

Greg Abbott has requested $11.1 billion from the federal government to reimburse his state for its border security operations.