On Tuesday's Fox & Friends, the show highlighted a New York Times article about a thrice-deported illegal alien who financially ruined an American citizen by stealing his identity so he could work, with the Times bizarrely showing sympathy for the illegal alien.
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt set up the segment:
When Donald Trump won, one of the issues was on the border, and that brings us to this story. It's out of Minnesota where an illegal migrant was apparently using a stolen identity to remain here in the United States, despite being deported three times, and it totally ruined another man's life.
Reporter Todd Piro informed viewers that the Times recently published an article titled, "Two Men, One Identity. They Both Paid the Price," about a man who found himself in debt because an illegal alien had been using his name, and the perpetrator finally having to face some consequences.
Piro read from the piece as he recounted:
...the Times argues that thousands of illegal immigrants rely on fraudulent (Social) Security numbers to get by in our country. The problem is, one of those fraudulent numbers belonged to a Minnesota father by the name of Dan Kluver. He's an upstanding citizen, by all accounts....Quote, "Kluver has lived in rural Minnesota for decades, but his Social Security number was being used for jobs in other parts of the country....He traced 15 years of records and found more tax documents listing unfamiliar jobs at a cement plant in Kansas, a paper mill in Tennessee, a construction company in Ohio, a cereal factory in Nebraska and a dog food plant in Missouri....'It's like I've lost all control over who I am,' Kluver said."
He added:
Kluver told the Times reporter, quote, "It just keeps getting more unbelievable. I can understand doing whatever you have to to provide for your kids, but now somebody's death is attached to my name?" This migrant had been deported back to Guatemala in 2005, 2008, and 2009, but each time he returned to the U.S. and purchased a new ID for work.
Co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Charles Hurt then commented on the way the article portrays the perpetrator sympathetically in spite of all the trouble he caused:
BRIAN KILMEADE: If you look at the New York Times story, it's almost even, like, "I can understand how you might be inconvenienced, and I can understand why he would do it."
CHARLES HURT: But both men had equal rights to this --
KILMEADE: It's crazy.
HURT: -- identity.
After Earhardt elaborated on some of the problems faced by the victim, Hurt added:
Yeah, and so the The New York Times, of course, treating these as equal people, writes in the paper, "The judge rules 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. That meant he could no longer work, so he spent his afternoons in a dark living room with Bible quotes painted on the wall, doing puzzles with his four-year-old while the rest of the family came and went. His wife cleaned houses, his daughter washed linens at the hotel, and two of his sons worked in restaurants, but it still wasn't enough to make up for the lost income in Kluver's name."
Transcript follows:
Fox & Friends
November 25, 2025
8:10 a.m. Eastern
AINSLEY EARHARDT: When Donald Trump won, one of the issues was on the border, and that brings us to this story. It's out of Minnesota where an illegal migrant was apparently using a stolen identity to remain here in the United States, despite being deported three times, and it totally ruined another man's life.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Todd Piro talks about it.
TODD PIRO: I think we can all put ourselves in the position of this guy and say, "What if this happened to us?" Take a listen. The New York Times reporting that this years long case of apparent identity fraud, titling the piece, "Two Men, One Identity. They Both Paid the Price."
Now, in this piece, the Times argues that thousands of illegal immigrants rely on fraudulent (Social) Security numbers to get by in our country. The problem is, one of those fraudulent numbers belonged to a Minnesota father by the name of Dan Kluver. He's an upstanding citizen, by all accounts. Times says he never fired a gun, missed a payment, or even been arrested for anything before. Quote, "Kluver has lived in rural Minnesota for decades, but his Social Security number was being used for jobs in other parts of the country. ... He traced 15 years of records and found more tax documents listing unfamiliar jobs at a cement plant in Kansas, a paper mill in Tennessee, a construction company in Ohio, a cereal factory in Nebraska and a dog food plant in Missouri. ... 'It's like I've lost all control over who I am,' Kluver said."
The government estimate that as many as one million undocumented workers are using fraudulent or stolen Social Security numbers, but, in this case, a particular migrant who had been using Kluver's identity ran into some trouble. The Guatemalan national was involved in a crash that killed a grandfather and injured his nine-year-old granddaughter.
Quote, "The girl sustained minor injuries, but the 68-year-old man flew off the bike, broke his pelvis in two places, struck his head and died. The driver stayed on the scene, praying and cooperating with the police as he handed over a license and registration for Dan Kluver. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. The crash was ruled an accident. But the victim's family had filed a wrongful death lawsuit -- with Kluver listed as the defendant."
Kluver told the Times reporter, quote, "It just keeps getting more unbelievable. I can understand doing whatever you have to to provide for your kids, but now somebody's death is attached to my name?"
This migrant had been deported back to Guatemala in 2005, 2008, and 2009, but each time he returned to the U.S. and purchased a new ID for work. Back over to you.
KILMEADE: It's amazing you can do that. It's amazing this guy did that. And it's amazing there isn't more outrage about that. If you look at the New York Times story, it's almost even, like, "I can understand how you might be inconvenienced, and I can understand why he would do it."
CHARLES HURT: But both men had equal rights to this --
KILMEADE: It's crazy.
HURT: -- identity.
AINSLEY EARHARDT: So Dan Kluver -- you could probably relate with this. He's lived in this town -- Olivia, Minnesota -- for 40 years -- worked at the same factory his dad did. He coaches baseball on the weekends, he teaches Sunday school, never been arrested, never gotten in trouble, never even smoked a cigarette. And the cop comes up to his car, pulls him over, and says, "Your license has been suspended. You have another driver's license in Missouri." He said, "I've only been there a few times in my life -- I don't have a license in Missouri." And so he said, "Oh, my gosh, this is what's happening to me."
He said he's received letters of wages earned in different towns, collection notices for debt, tax audits. He was so frustrated and he couldn't get to the bottom of it, and he couldn't find out how to get his identity back from this illegal immigrant. So his wife just said, "You know what, let's just pay the $6,000 in fines." Guess what happened next year -- they got more fines for $22,000 that this other person who was using his identity owed.
HURT: Yeah, and so the The New York Times, of course, treating these as equal people, writes in the paper, "The judge rules 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. That meant he could no longer work, so he spent his afternoons in a dark living room with Bible quotes painted on the wall, doing puzzles with his four-year-old while the rest of the family came and went. His wife cleaned houses, his daughter washed linens at the hotel, and two of his sons worked in restaurants, but it still wasn't enough to make up for the lost income in Kluver's name."
KILMEADE: So he had to stay home and not use his name?
HURT: So he's the victim. At one point, it becomes so crazy, the illegal is making more money than the real Kluver, and so Kluver winds up on the hook for the taxes for the money that this illegal has made, and yet The New York Times frames this as being he's just a -- the illegal is the victim here.
EARHARDT: He, like Todd said --
KILMEADE: JD Vance wrote, "What shameful framing from The New York Times." No kidding.
EARHARDT: Like Todd said, DUIs, deported three times, some of the Social Security numbers connected to child support and other debts, got in that accident where the grandfather died. He has four children ages four to 19, and it talks in the article about, at the age of 16, he hiked out of Guatemala, he rode on top of a train across Mexico for three weeks, nearly drowned in the Rio Grande, took a Greyhound into America, and bought IDs to work at this turkey plant.
KILMEADE: Like we care about his horrible plight. This is -- when people say that illegal immigration is a victimless crime, I think you're insane, number one, and, number two, this is a case in point, although The New York Times needs to fully understand the story.
HURT: Indeed.
EARHARDT: Okay, let's hand it over to Carly.
CARLY SHIMKUS: What a story. I'm sure a lot of jaws were dropping as you were detailing that that could happen,
EARHARDT: But Todd's right. It could happen to any of us.
SHIMKUS: Yes, it can.
EARHARDT: He says he locks his Social Security card up with his kids' birth certificate.
SHIMKUS: The amount of money that this man lost and the amount of sleep he lost when he was trying to figure this all out, incomprehensible.
