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The documents of the divorce of the parents of Kamala Harris have largely been purged from the Superior Court of Alameda County, California (case 419441), but these 6 pages of public records survive.

Divorce Page 1

Divorce Page 2

Divorce Page 3

Divorce Page 4

Divorce Page 5

Divorce Page 6

You can note the reference to an offshore bank account. He parents appear to have had the means to have sent her to a local private school, if they wanted to, which appears to somewhat conflict with Kamala's self-pitying onstage account of her early childhood.

We have additional documents, which will be released (should Kamala's status in the race improve).

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This image is a draft card from 1917. It is the same one both of my grandfathers had (but the man on this one is not my grandfather). Please read line 4 carefully:

You will note that the US government recognized only two categories of citizen: "Natural born" and "Naturalized".

The other choices are "Alien" and "Declared intention (to naturalize)".

Now, the authors of this document were surely aware of the Supreme Court cases regarding the citizen status of US born children of aliens.

Both of my grandfathers were born in the US to alien parents, as were millions of people in the period 1870-1910.

None of those children were ever naturalized.

You are suggesting, without evidence, that there is a recognized fourth category "US citizen from birth, but not natural born".

The Selective Service System in 1917 did not recognize that category, I can find no historic evidence that it ever existed, and if we had never heard of "Barack Obama" I doubt that this would have ever come up.