Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

We have our own police force, harbor patrol, customs officers, and Coast Guard. That won't change no matter who is operating the terminal.

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents.

We'll never be able to thank those guys enough, ... We're just so grateful... Those Coast Guard guys had been out there in Biloxi, in Mobile, in New Orleans and they just happened to be flying low and there were sunny skies.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.