"The economic crisis will absolutely make voters do something about illegal immigration," said the chairman of the Taxpayer Revolution and author of the California Taxpayer Protection Act 2010, Ted Hilton. The initiative seeks to "deny birth certificated to the children of undocumented parents."

If "the baby requires public services," the initiative says that the mother will have to register as a "foreign parent," and will need an official California identification with photograph, Proof of residency, and demonstrate that she has paid her share without relying on public services in the state of California or the county in which she lives.

The initiative does not have a high possibility of becoming law. The state would have to change the procedure for issuing birth certificates in the state of California, which would create "a new kind of crime" if the mother lied to authorities.

The group would have to gather almost 500,000 signatures from registered voters and submit them to the California Secretary of State next November as a requirement to register the proposal on electoral ballots in June 2010.

Gathering the signatures will begin today in Los Angeles at an event organized by Hilton and some of the original promoters of CA's Anti-immigrant Proposition 187 approved in 1994.

The Taxpayer Revolution basically consists of the authors of Proposition 187, which denied all services to undocumented immigrants and their families, and was overturned for being unconstitutional. The same coalition has attempted on at least two other occasions to revive Proposition 187 under other names.

In November 2004, the coalition failed to gather some 455,000 signatures for a new version of Proposition 187 on the ten year anniversary of the approval of the first version. A year later, the group failed again for the same reasons.