A very over looked data IRS produces in regards to identity theft has been released.

Victor Davis Hanson reported this stat in his write up at National Review. You can find the whole piece here.

Below is the stat:

But the IRS in 2017 identified some 1.2 million identity-theft cases, in which illegal aliens had employed illegitimate or inconsistent social-security numbers to file tax returns — and implicitly thereby cause innumerable problems for the U.S. tax system.