The US Coast Guard is taking President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant mandate seriously, announcing this week it will step up patrols in migrant-prone crossings.

The move follows the dismissal of Coast Guard Commandant Linda Lee Fagan, the first military officer fired under Trump.

Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.

The Department of Homeland Security says it is continuing to accept requests for asylum-seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and is authorizing travel for certain nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela seeking to lawfully enter the United States through a humanitarian parole program beyond Jan.

Mobilized 'cutters, aircraft, boats and deployable specialized forces' are headed to protect the state from unwanted interlopers.

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.

Marco Rubio, Trump's nominee for secretary of state, spoke about China’s influence in the region and zeroed in on Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has informed that under the Conditional Stay Program, it continues to accept asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico border and allows travel for certain nationals of Haiti,

More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.

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

The president sought to end a program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and remain in the country for up to two years.

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