SOCIAL INSECURITY
I was lucky that I caught the identity theft early. Some people spend years digging themselves out after someone else pretends to be them.
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SOCIAL INSECURITY
About seven years ago, my identity was stolen in a data breach. I found out fairly quickly because one of the thieves made a mistake: the receipts for their fraudulent purchases were sent to my email address. It still took almost two weeks to shut down the accounts opened in my name and clear them from my credit reports. I was constantly stressed and paranoid and couldn’t focus on anything else in my life until my credit was cleared and locked down.
I was lucky that I caught the identity theft early. Some people spend years digging themselves out after someone else pretends to be them.
This was the case for Dan Kluver, a rural Minnesota father who worked in a sugar beet factory and spent his spare time coaching baseball and teaching Sunday school.
For years, Kluver and his wife believed something was wrong. Their tax bills never seemed to add up and they constantly seemed to be getting audited or discovering new debt. The Kluvers reported identity theft, paid to investigate the issue, but heard nothing from the government. So they paid thousands of dollars in extra tax bills and garnished paychecks over the years trying to settle whatever the problem was with the IRS.
Fifteen years later, they found the culprit: Romeo Pérez-Bravo, an illegal alien from Guatemala.
Pérez-Bravo had stolen multiple identities throughout his time in the U.S. While living here, he got several DUIs. He was deported in 2005, 2008 and 2009 but came back each time and stole another American’s info.
A New York Times report claims Pérez-Bravo was paying state and federal taxes but that didn’t matter for Kluver. The IRS believed he was working multiple jobs, sending him into a higher tax bracket than the one he was paying taxes for.
The story gets even more unbelievable from there. Pérez-Bravo was involved in a fatal accident that killed a 68-year-old grandfather and injured his 9-year-old granddaughter. He was cleared of wrongdoing but the family filed a wrongful death suit against Kluver, whose name was on the fake license Pérez-Bravo provided at the scene.
The police eventually found Pérez-Bravo and he has been charged for his crimes. Nonetheless, the NYT report paints him as just as much a sympathetic victim as Kluver, describing him as a family man and hard worker who essentially had no choice but to steal an identity so he could make money for his family.
“Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price,” the headline reads. The article says the illegal’s crime was “borrowing” identities — not stealing them, not wreaking havoc on the innocent, unwitting people who had committed no crime except apparently being born in the United States.
It’s an infuriating story and a reminder of just how many negative impacts there are of illegal immigration. According to the NYT, at least ONE MILLION illegals are working under stolen SSNs. How many people like Kluver are paying the price?
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