The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting "alien expulsion flight operations" to Texas and California as part of the Trump administration's efforts to remove people in the country illegally, the Coast's Guard's San Diego office said Saturday.
The system will be down until at least Feb. 19 while the service investigates a hacking incident, officials said.
The final report, which was sent to Acting Coast Guard Commandant Kevin Lunday on Friday, included four recommendations aimed at helping the Coast Guard interdict non-commercial vessels smuggling illicit drugs into the country.
The Department of Homeland Security has cut 405 employees from its workforce, a DHS official first told ABC News on Friday.
Another 12 members of the Coast Guard who worked on diversity ... The spokesperson said the DHS’s “component leads identified non-mission critical personnel in probationary status” and are actively “identifying other wasteful positions and offices ...
It also comes during a sensitive period of transition inside the Coast Guard. On his second day in office, Trump fired Commandant Linda Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military. His administration reportedly evicted her from her government home a few days later.
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