Watch live: DHS Secretary Noem speaks in South Florida

(NewsNation) — In South Florida, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is scheduled to enactment successful an offload of much than 45,000 pounds of drugs with the U.S. Coast Guard.

The 10:30 a.m. ET lawsuit volition absorption connected the maritime agency’s crackdown connected smuggling successful the Sunshine State.

Since January, the Coast Guard said it has tripled its forces operating connected the confederate borderline successful effect to Trump’s national emergency declaration.

NewsNation got an exclusive look astatine their work from the sky a fewer weeks ago, riding on with Coast Guard pilots who way migrants through the Caribbean. The formation lasted six hours — starting successful Miami and going implicit respective islands.

NewsNation’s Jordan Perkins and Anna Kutz contributed to this report.