The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a capsized boat oozing 150 gallons of oil into the Delaware River off the Navy Yard Monday morning.
Illegal migrants were detained by the U.S. Coast Guard Southern California as part of Saturday's "alien expulsion flight operations."
The Coast Guard started flying migrants to states along the border on Saturday. The Air Force is assigned to fly them out of the country.
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 commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her position over “leadership deficiencies” and “operational failures,” a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
The Trump administration ousted Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan, who is the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military.
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.
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
The first woman to lead a branch of the armed forces was relieved of command within 24 hours of President Trump’s inauguration.
The firing comes amid Trump’s pledge to reshape the U.S. military and rid the nation of what he calls “woke” generals.
A number of people had spotted the Linda T., a 1984 Bayliner registered in New York, adrift in the icy waters of Sandy Hook Bay over the weekend