File under: reports that give us the warm and fuzzies. 

According to a whistleblower, the Obama administration knowingly allowed into the U.S. at least 16 members of the notorious MS-13 gang. 

The gang members in question entered the country as teens in 2014 and were ultimately sent to juvenile homes. The Washington Times reports: 

Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said a whistleblower turned over Customs and Border Protection documents from 2014 detailing the 16 people who were caught crossing the border.

“CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities,” Mr. Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said.

[...] Mr. Johnson revealed the documents at a hearing on the dangers posed by MS-13.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said she wants to get rid of gangs, but criticized the release of the whistleblower documents, saying it may have hurt active investigations or otherwise dented efforts to get the gang members out of the country.

“I have concerns that these documents were released so quickly,” she said.

The UAC surge has long been suspected of providing a new pool of recruits for MS-13 and other gangs in the U.S., though the actual numbers are unclear.

There have been a series of anecdotal reports, however, of UAC who were placed into community schools and ended up taking part in violent gang activities.

“The gangs surf the internet, building dossiers on potential recruits,” Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said.

He said that while local gangs kill over drug disputes, MS-13 kills because of perceived gang ties or to enforce discipline within the gang.

“The homicides related to MS-13, it’s just because we can, and we will and because of the fear that instills,” Chief Manger said.

Best of all? According to the Times, the gang members were deemed "unaccompanied alien children" and were told by Obama officials that they should be treated as refugees. 

Officials at the time said the children should be treated as refugees fleeing horrific conditions back home — though security analysts said the children were prime recruiting territory for gangs already in the U.S.

Johnson added that these unaccompanied "alien children" are usually not children with 68 percent being between the ages of 15 and 17. 

I for one, feel safer already.