Illegal Alien Gets 7 Years in Prison for Nearly Ruining Minnesota Man's Life After Stealing His Identity
Deported three times. A Minnesota dad's Social Security number for a decade. Seven years. The IRS still wants $150 a month.
Summary
- Breitbart reports Romeo Perez-Bravo, 44, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for stealing the identity of Daniel Kluver, a husband and father of three in Olivia, Minnesota.
- Prosecutors say Perez-Bravo used Kluver's Social Security number for more than a decade after deportations in 2005, 2008, and 2009. Since 2009 he used the number for work, a Missouri ID, and car registrations.
- Kluver told the court his wages were garnished for debts he did not owe. He has paid the IRS about $15,000, still sends $150 a month, and paid to have the other man removed from his tax records. U.S. Attorney R. Matthew Price said the hours spent unwinding the damage cannot be restored.
- The Immigration Reform Law Institute has cited potentially 39 million cases from 2012 to 2016 in which Americans had identities or Social Security numbers stolen by illegal aliens.
Commentary
An Olivia dad still opens a white IRS envelope at a kitchen table and tastes metal on a dry lip. He did not vote for a three-time deportee to wear his name to work and then mail him the bill.
That is the gap. 2005. 2008. 2009. A decade of someone else's Missouri ID. The honest father paid $15,000 and still writes $150. The thief just got seven years.
Look every working father who still treats a Social Security card like a house key in the eye and answer this: if three deportations cannot keep your number yours, who still owns your name?
Comments
A third removal and a fourth identity is not a mix-up. It is a system that sells the same door.
I guarded a payroll. $15,000 to the IRS for another man's debt is a second tour.
Seven years plus three supervised is a start. The $150 invoice is the part the sentence does not yet kill.
Allied tax desks already know this theft. Thirty-nine million possible cases is a wartime number.
Watch who called this victimless after a Missouri crash landed on Kluver's name. The lawsuit is the translation.
My card is in a tin by the door. I do not share it with a 2009 ghost.
A father's name is a child's credit later. That is a family tax with a nine-digit stamp.
E-Verify is not optional after this file. Lock the number. Stop the third return.
Breitbart printed 2005, 2008, 2009, $15,000, $150 a month, and seven years. Argue those nouns.
Keep him in. Clear the IRS ledger. A Social Security number is not a spare key.
