During his first days as President, Donald Trump expressed concerns about violent gangs entering the United States through the southern border, emphasizing individuals with distinctive tattoos on their faces. This was part of his broader efforts to tighten immigration enforcement across the country.

In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, Trump discussed various topics ranging from his plans to declassify more documents related to JFK’s assassination to Joe Biden’s potential pardoning of his family members.

Addressing the issue of the migrant crisis, Trump highlighted the risks associated with open borders and the unrestricted entry of people into the country. He alluded to the potential dangers posed by some individuals crossing the border, without specifying further details.

‘There are people coming in with tattoos all over their face. Their entire face is covered in tattoos,’ he added. ‘Typically, you know, he’s not gonna be the head of the local bank.’

Hours after being sworn in on Monday, Trump declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico, saying ‘America’s sovereignty is under attack’, and he now appears to be making good on his repeated campaign promises to tackle migration.

In one of his first acts in office the president has ordered the deployment of more than 1,500 troops to the southern border, where they are expected to help with the instalment of physical barriers.

It is expected to be the first of a series of new measures after an internal government memo, seen by CBS, indicated that he plans to send up to 10,000 service personnel to assist the Customs and Border Protection agency.

The memo also reportedly suggests that US Department of Defense bases could be used as ‘holding facilities’ for migrants waiting to be deported. 

Last month, DailyMail.com reported how heavily-tattooed gangsters belonging to the Tren de Aragua crime group are coming across the border and spreading their tentacles across the country. 

Trump also spent portions of the interview expressing dismay over Biden’s decision to issue preemptive pardons to some of the Democrat’s family members and some of the Republican president’s political enemies.

As their time came to a close, the Fox News host told Trump ‘let me get to the economy’ and ‘I’m running out of time’.

‘I don’t care,’ the new president responded. 

He then turned back to bashing Biden’s decision-making skills, including the ex-president’s decision not to pardon himself.

‘This is more important because right now the economy is going to do great. I’m here, so the economy – but you have to understand, he had bad advisers on almost everything,’ Trump said of Biden.

Hannity interjected saying he was ‘being yelled at for time,’ but Trump kept going. 

‘It’s like in the old days when the Secretary of State said he never made a correct decision on foreign policy,’ Trump said, meaning to quote a former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  

Over the course of Hannity’s hour-long program, Trump also hinted at another government agency he wanted to scrap and revealed the latest on the JFK assassination files. But the issue of pardons was front-and-center. 

In a clip shared earlier on Wednesday by Fox, Trump is heard giving a cryptic warning about Biden making a mistake in not pardoning himself. 

Trump repeated that point several times during the full interview with Hannity. 

‘The precedent that he set on pardons is amazing. That’s a much bigger story but people don’t like talking about it. He pardoned everybody,’ Trump said. ‘But he didn’t pardon himself.’ 

‘Remember this, those people that he pardoned are now mandated, because they got a pardon, to testify and they can’t take the Fifth,’ Trump claimed. 

Hannity asked Trump if he would like to see Congress investigate Biden’s pardons. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson already expressed openness to that. 

‘I think we’ll let Congress decide,’ Trump said. 

Hannity asked the same question about his attorney general, who is expected to be former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi once she passes Senate confirmation. 

‘I was always against that with presidents,’ Trump replied. 

‘Hillary Clinton, I could have had Hillary Clinton, a big number done on her,’ the president added. 

He then pointed to his own legal issues – having been indicted in four separate cases for a mix of crimes related to hush money payments, the storage of classified documents and the effort to overturn the 2020 election and January 6. 

‘I went through four years of hell,’ the newly sworn-in president said. ‘I spent millions of dollars in legal fees and I won, but I did it the hard way.’ 

‘It’s really hard to say they shouldn’t have to go through it all,’ Trump added. 

Trump also spoke with Hannity about his first trip as president – he’ll head to Asheville, North Carolina, on Friday to see how the rebuilding effort is coming along after Hurricane Helene flooded the region.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, former immigration and customs enforcement director for Colorado and Wyoming , John Fabbricatore, said: ‘We’re going to start hearing stories about them getting arrested everywhere.

‘They’re in 17 states now. I wouldn’t be surprised if by February, that’s higher than 25.’

Known as TdA to law enforcement, the gang originated in a Venezuelan prison.

Members of the South American mafia have since crept into the US via the southern border, hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants who have entered the country under the Biden administration.

Last year, the horrific murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an undocumented migrant brought the issue of border security into sharp focus.

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela, was sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of her kidnapping and murder. 

Responding to the case in March, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, a bill that would require federal detention of illegal immigrants arrested for burglary or theft.

It failed to get through the then-Democrat-controlled Senate and an amended version wasn’t brought to the Senate until January 20 this year, as part of the 119th Congress. 

It was finally passed and became the first bill sent for President Trump’s signature in his second term in office.

In June, the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly by two illegal migrants, also left the nation reeling. 

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, confirmed Franklin Pena, 26, and Johan Martinez-Rangel, 22, could be put to death by lethal injection if a jury finds them guilty in the death of Jocelyn Nungaray.

Pena and Rangel are accused of luring the girl from a Houston convenience store late at night and were allegedly seen walking under a bridge with her where they spent two hours before emerging alone, police said. 

Nungaray’s body was found hours later floating in a bayou. The pre-teen had been raped and strangled.

Authorities believe both suspects have ties to TdA.

Members of TdA can often be identified by telltale tattoos, including a train, a crown, a clock and an AK-47.

Estefania Primera, 36, recognisable by her distinctive face tattoos and known as La Barbie, is an illegal migrant who allegedly has ties to the gang.

Primera was arrested in El Paso, Texas, on September 27 on suspicion of sex trafficking a woman reportedly at the Gateway Hotel in Downtown El Paso.

Her activities have been compared to brutal gangs like MS-13, and although she was supposed to be monitored by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since crossing the border in 2023, she removed her ankle monitor and vanished soon after arriving.

Another alleged Venezuelan gang member was arrested in Miami, the US Border Patrol announced in December.

‘On 12/6, USBP agents in Miami, FL, arrested a Tren de Aragua gang member, a Venezuelan national with an arrest in 2022 for illegal entry,’ agency chief Jason Owens announced on X.

The agency told DailyMail.com the gangster, 19, was detained in West Palm Beach Florida, not far from the home of President-elect Donald Trump.

‘Custody of the individual was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When individuals are encountered with derogatory information, we deny admission, detain them, or refer them to other federal agencies for removal or further vetting, investigation and/or prosecution as appropriate,’ a Border Patrol spokesman said.

A Venezuelan dissident running for office in Salt Lake City, Utah, has warned that the gangsters have been linked to at least two separate crimes in the state – including an alleged prostitution ring and shooting. 

Carlos Moreno told the New York Post: ‘Our law enforcement people are not ready. They are not ready yet to face these kinds of gangs in Utah because the way that they do things are totally different than criminals here in the United States.’ 

‘That’s why people right now are very afraid,’ he added.