This person is not Hispanic, he’s Palauan. I don’t know how recent, but his family name indicates that he is from the Islan of Palau, near Malaya. It is termed an Austronesian Island, which I never heard of before. I wish he would go back there and save us a lot of trouble.
Palau in Micronesia, closer to New Guinea, one of the Caroline Islands. A US posession previously administered from the Phillipines, now from Guam.