A ballot initiative targeting children born to people who are in the country illegally is on hold after anti-illegal immigration activists failed to garner enough signatures to make June's California ballot.
Anti-illegal immigration activists who are attempting to cut off automatic citizenship for children who were born on United States soil are now aiming to put their California Taxpayer Protection initiative on the ballot two years from now, said Ted Hilton, a San Diego resident who leads the effort.
"We're still working behind the scenes," Hilton said.
First, he said, his group needs to look for donors with deep pockets.
Hilton said the money is needed to pay for professional signature gatherers instead of the volunteers they relied on last year, who fell short in gathering the more than 600,000 signatures by the November deadline to make June's ballot.
