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Citation needed. That's seriously such a preposterous stance that I actually skipped reading your entire response after I got to it.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
The concept of human rights and the morality of how those with power act towards those without has been discussed under many names for millennia. It's been discussed under the name "human rights" long before we started using it as a legal term. Hint: where do you think the legal term came from?
Philosophy pertaining to the law is not that same thing as the law.
It's actually in the founding documents of our country that human rights are not defined by the legal system, and that we can only specifically enumerate a subset that we find critically important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
This makes sense because the philosophical works that were inspirational and popular amongst the founders were those of natural rights philosophers of different sorts quite concerned with human rights in general. You can see it in how the preamble is basically a summary of them.
All that aside: being shocked that someone is discussing morality when discussing human rights is naive and a cop out for a shitty opinion.
Alright, I felt bad and went back to try reading. I got to the bit where it seems you think the US only has jus soli citizenship (speaking of needing to use the right term) instead of both "by blood" and "by soil" and stopped again. Supporting both is actually quite easy. Possession of a US birth certificate makes you a citizen. Either parent being a citizen makes you a citizen. More problems arise from "by blood" citizenship, since you need to present the child and proof of parental citizenship before someone with authority to decide if the credentials are valid. A US citizen born abroad results in quite the bundle of paperwork as well as in-person consulate visits. Being born in a US hospital it's a short form where a hospital official affirms where they were born. The rest is just vital records for statistics.