Minnesota factory worker Daniel Kluver’s life was nearly ruined by an illegal alien who stole his identity and then proceeded to get into heaps of trouble, including a car crash that killed a grandfather.
Minnesota man Dan Kluver didn’t realize what had happened to his identity until he was pulled over late last year, only to discover that his license had mysteriously been suspended — and that there was another driver’s license with his name being used down in Missouri.
Kluver knew at that moment that something was up, according to The New York Times, though he’d had a feeling about it for awhile.
“Over the years, there had been signs that something wasn’t right — stray letters about wages earned in unfamiliar towns and collection notices for debt that wasn’t his,” the Times reported on Sunday.
What made matters significantly worse is that some years, the guy who was using Kluver’s identity earned more than him, causing Kluver himself to fall into a higher tax bracket and owe more money to the feds.
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In addition to everything else appalling about that Dan Kluver story, he should be allowed to sue the fucking IRS. That they would come after him for that money when it was *completely obvious* that it was identify fraud is despicable.
— EdReal (@Ed_Realist) November 24, 2025
The Minnesota man tried reaching out to the federal government, but as he patiently waited for them to process his case, the IRS began docking his annual tax returns and garnishing some of his paychecks.
“Finally, a few months before their wedding in 2012, [Kluver’s now-wife] Kristy decided to pay off the balance, emptying her savings and sending in a check for $6,000,” according to the Times.
That relief only lasted until the next tax season, when the couple received a new $22,000 bill from the IRS.
For the next decade, they lived as best as they could “with the consequences,” meaning “annual tax audits, budgets that never added up, whispered arguments after the kids went to bed.”
Kluver tried repeatedly to get help from the government but eventually “resigned himself to a payment plan” — and remember, this was for a debt that he himself hadn’t accrued.
Then something changed a little after Kluver was pulled over last year — President Donald Trump assumed office again and began a comprehensive, unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration.
Emboldened by Trump’s agenda, Kluver went to the police to file another affidavit for identity theft. This time, it worked and the stealer of his identity was found to be Romeo Perez-Bravo, a Guatemalan illegal alien with a lengthy history of using other people’s identities to work.
While using others’ identities, he also got caught up in a lot of trouble, including DUIs (which are common among illegal aliens) and other so-called “minor offenses” that the Times (which has been accused of portraying him in a sympathetic way) blatantly refused to reveal.
One man is an American who lost tens of thousands of dollars after his identity got stolen.
The other man—who stole the first man’s identity—is an illegal immigrant with multiple arrests, several DUIs, and three deportations.
The New York Times thinks they’re both victims. pic.twitter.com/ifZrQ2MTmv
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) November 24, 2025
Along the way, and after several deportations (including in 2005, 2008, and 2009), he wound up with Kluver’s ID in his pocket and began working “at a succession of factory jobs across the Midwest.”
That’s when the problems began for Kluver.
“[T]o the I.R.S., it looked like one Daniel Kluver was working several jobs, making more than $130,000 and paying a tax rate for someone living just above the poverty line,” according to the Times.
After Kluver filed his second identity theft report, rookie officer Damon Coots was assigned the case. Through digging and researching hard, Coots discovered Perez-Bravo and then forwarded the case to the feds.
They soon discovered that in 2022, Perez-Bravo was driving to work when the serpentine belt in his vehicle broke, causing him to lose control, trash into a motorized tricycle, and injure a little girl and kill her grandfather.
“It just keeps getting more unbelievable,” Kluver said of this finding. “I can understand doing whatever you have to do to provide for your kids, but now somebody’s death is attached to my name?”
Long story short, Perez-Bravo was finally booked in late March and charged with identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number.
But for reasons that remain unclear, a judge “ruled that he could return home with an ankle monitor until his next court date as long as he stopped using Kluver’s name and Social Security number.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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