“I and some others went to a notary public and swore he was born in the U.S.”
Are you saying that a person only needs to get a few people to swear that a random person was born in the USA and they can get a genuine birth certificate?
Yep, he got a BC replacement and then a passport.
Wait a minute, you said a random person and I don’t know what you consider a random person.
Both his parents were citizens though had already passed and all his relatives were citizens, all born and raised in the US.