This month, the search-and-rescue leader for a Coast Guard regional command center was told he had to report within days to Texas for a monthslong border deployment, leaving other staff members to cover for him, according to a person familiar with the situation and documents viewed by The Times.
D.H.S. said that the Coast Guard had transported more than 7,300 immigrants so far this year.
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