[curiosity]

Washington State borders Canada and many Canadians are found wandering aimlessly and aimfully around that border state. Just as in Hawaii many Japanese are found.

Yeah, but they aren't illegal, and they aren't committing birth certificate fraud. They have no reason to.

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You don't know that. Here's a story of BC fraud from one non-border state:

In 2004, following a long investigation by the FBI and Department of State, Jean Anderson, the former deputy registrar of the Hudson County, N.J., Office of Vital Statistics, pleaded guilty to taking money for falsifying county records.

According to a Department of Justice news release, Anderson was paid to insert phony birth records for illegal aliens into the files at her county office. The immigrants, in turn, approached county window clerks and requested copies of their birth certificates, after which the clerks looked to the files and, upon seeing the records Anderson had inserted, issued fraudulent birth certificates unknowingly.

Read more: Birth certificate fraud: It's been done before http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=107200#ixzz1CpBzyZOr

And of course there's the infamous case of Sun Yat Sen's Hawaiian BC.

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I’m crazy for yapping with you anyway. You’re like a arsonist who shows up when the house of the most popular family in town is on fire and burning down, and insists to all who bother to listen that it can’t be arson because the everyone loves the family.

[bvw]

Also it's really naive to say that there is no BC fraud. It's actually quite rampant in some places. Like for example Hawaii, as Sun Yat Sen's case shows. He wasn't the only one.

Here, consider Puerto Rico's case:

The government of Puerto Rico is invalidating every birth certificate issued on the island before July 1, 2010, in an attempt to curb rampant fraud and identity theft that officials say has ruined lives, strained social service programs and compromised national security.

Each of Puerto Rico's 4 million residents and the estimated 1.2 million Puerto Rico-born Americans living in the 50 states will have to apply for new vital documents to legally prove that they exist and remain eligible for government benefits.

The U.S. State Department and Homeland Security Department estimate that an astonishing 40 percent of all U.S. passport fraud cases in recent years involved Puerto Rican birth certificates, though exact numbers are unknown.

"There are so many [Puerto Rican birth certificates] floating around… a lot fall into the hands of unscrupulous individuals," said State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs spokeswoman Rosemary Macray. "We've uncovered many cases of people posing as Puerto Ricans" in applying for U.S. passports.

For more read: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/puerto-rico-birth-certificate-crisis-invalidating-fix/story?id=10422841

For the Obama and who ever "registered" him in 1961 or whenever it was done, Hawaii was the place of choice.