Homeland security secretary says Coast Guard is 'deploying every available' resource to respond to plane crash near DC.

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 started flying migrants to states along the border on Saturday. The Air Force is assigned to fly them out of the country.

Two people called for help when their 32-foot sailboat, Walrus, began sinking and they were unable to keep up with flooding.

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.

An ongoing standoff between the Chinese and Philippine coast guards underscores the contentiousness of the situation. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) belligerence and brinkmanship against the democratic allies of the United States of America in the Indo-Pacific region continue unabated.

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.

The FAA said the midair collision occurred around 9 pm EST when a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, smashed into a military Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to an airport runway.

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.

Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin said Trump didn’t follow the law when he removed 18 inspectors general last Friday.