USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to help curb illegal seaborne immigration, Navy officials said.

The guided-missile destroyer, which left the Middle East in June, will help "restore territorial integrity" at the US border, officials said.

The USS Gravely, which was used in combat in the Middle East last year, will now be heading to the Mexico border, Defense Department officials announced over the weekend, the same day the vessel departed the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia.

The president sent a direct message to the militia group, writing in the post, “YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY.”

The Houthis claimed on Sunday to have fired 18 ballistic missiles and a drone at the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier group.