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Steven Malanga
Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration.
As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007—one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. . . .
Spring 2008.
City Journal Spring 2008.
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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