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It’s unclear what universe the New York Times is living in, but can we stop playing the sympathy game for people who steal other people’s identity? In the pursuit of ensuring no human is labeled illegal, this illegal alien illegally stole someone’s identity — which, of course, is illegal. And the only victim here is the person whose identity was stolen. If that isn’t an illegal slap in the face of our justice system, nothing is.

The New York Times is really out there claiming that because “thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers,” somehow that makes them the victim. They even dedicated an article to the illegal who stole the Social Security number of an innocent American.

According to the outlet:

He had lived under enough names and numbers in the United States that they started to blur together. Vincent Trujillo. Reynaldo Guerra. And then, for more than a decade, Daniel Kluver — the name he used until he could barely remember what it felt like to exist as himself: Romeo Pérez-Bravo, 42, a Guatemalan immigrant who had spent most of his adult life working under borrowed identities.

You know, if he had done things the “legal” way, he wouldn’t have to assume so many different names. And while that may be exhausting, he has no one to blame but himself.

By the start of 2025, he was preparing for another graveyard shift in St. Joseph, Mo., lacing his work boots in the darkness of his drafty rental while his wife and five children slept. He packed their school lunches for the next day, drove to the dog-food factory and gathered with his co-workers to say their nightly prayer. Then he swiped his badge to begin another 12-hour shift as Daniel Kluver, sinking deeper into an identity that wasn’t really his own.

Wow. So are we supposed to feel sorry he was working the graveyard shift? The outlet does realize that means an American wasn’t given a job at his expense, right?!

Perez-Bravo had come to the United States for the first time at 16 to help earn money for his family, traveling alone to join his father in Marshall, Minn. He hiked out of the Guatemalan highlands, rode atop a freight train for three weeks across Mexico, nearly drowned in the Rio Grande and took a Greyhound to Middle America, where life somehow felt harder. He slept on a couch in his father’s apartment and enrolled in high school despite speaking almost no English. Then he began to look for a job, but no one would hire an underage worker without papers.

Eventually, a turkey-processing company offered him a position if he could provide an ID to satisfy the government-required I-9 form. A friend who worked at the factory introduced Perez-Bravo to someone who sold sets of names, IDs and Social Security numbers for as little as $250. Perez-Bravo thought the documents looked flimsy and fake, but his friends assured him that at least half of the company’s workers were using similar IDs. He needed a job, and the turkey plant needed workers. Nobody looked too hard at his paperwork, and soon he was making $7 an hour on the graveyard shift, cutting turkeys at night and going to school in the morning.

If you’re not getting papers from the government and have to go to a friend at a factory, then clearly it’s fake. I’m having trouble believing he didn’t know better.

The first years were lonely and exhausting. He started to drink, which led to a string of D.U.I.s and other minor offenses. He was deported back to Guatemala in 2005, 2008 and 2009, but each time he returned to the United States and purchased a new ID for work. Some of the Social Security numbers were connected to child support or other debts, which meant his paychecks were garnished. Others were flagged as suspicious by H.R. departments. He sought out new documents from the black market, sending a few text messages and then meeting a middle man on a street corner in Nebraska to pay in cash. This time the Social Security card was for Daniel Kluver. Perez-Bravo didn’t know if that person was fake, or dead, or a victim of identity theft, or somehow in on the scheme. But the number worked at a succession of factory jobs across the Midwest.

Oh, look. He even drove drunk on American roads, blaming his “lonely and exhausting” existence. Call me crazy, but plenty of people deal with terrible jobs without jeopardizing the safety of Americans. And what’s even more bizarre is that he had so many DUIs and still kept coming back into America. Something is not adding up here.

Just because someone pays taxes under a fake identity does not mean they are justified in doing so. The victim in question had his wages garnished, all because of the mess this man created.

Some years the other Dan Kluver had earned more than his own salary at a local sugar beet factory, which pushed the total income under his Social Security number into a higher tax bracket as the debt started to mount. Twice, he’d contacted law enforcement and filed an identity theft report with the federal government, where it landed in a pile along with tens of thousands of similar reports filed each year. He waited for relief while the I.R.S. docked his annual tax returns and garnished a few of his paychecks, costing him thousands. Finally, a few months before their wedding in 2012, Kristy decided to pay off the balance, emptying her savings and sending in a check for $6,000. Their relief lasted until the next tax season, when a new bill arrived — this one for $22,000.

Wow. Over $20,000 in a tax bill. Incredible. This man should not have had to deal with any of that — no American should. But because the left can’t just accept that there are reasons for laws, we end up with a mess like this.

They spent the next decade living with the consequences — annual tax audits, budgets that never added up, whispered arguments after the kids went to bed. Kluver kept calling government numbers and waiting on hold until he eventually resigned himself to a payment plan. He agreed to send the I.R.S. $150 each month, which he’d done more than 35 times. “I can’t keep obsessing over this and getting nowhere,” he told Kristy. “I need to think about something else.”

This is the only victim in the situation, and it’s unfathomable why the outlet would frame it as if there are two. Some humans are illegal, and Social Security fraud is also illegal. The sooner the left admits that, the better off everyone will be. This is truly pathetic.

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