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The answer is: in 1961 the American public had not yet been herded by Teddy Kennedy and socialists into providing welfare benefits to illegals. Hawaii had a large population of illegals who were slave labor, but were a huge burden to the system in poverty and crime...The Hawaiian answer, as it was a Democratic state and still is, was to start registering all those foreign kids by the thousands.

That's an interesting allegation. Do you have any evidence that it is true? Unfortunately, the author of this piece fails to provide any.

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That's an interesting allegation. Do you have any evidence that it is true? Unfortunately, the author of this piece fails to provide any.

It sounds like he's projecting current conditions back onto the past without really looking at the details.

I don't have any information either, but Hawaiian requirements for birth records were lax even when the welfare state wasn't much to speak of and immigration was limited.

Just why that was -- an effort to get around restrictions on Chinese or Japanese immigration and citizenship or just general inefficiency -- I don't know.

How likely is it that the White Territorial governments would have made things easy for Japanese newcomers? Maybe there were just too many children born on out of the way plantations to keep good records.