ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As a graduate student Ted Hilton became a scholar of Constitutional Law, and over the last 19 years has researched the 14th Amendment's original intent, the debates written in the Congressional Globe, along with the study of numerous United States Supreme Court citizenship and jurisdiction cases.

One of his degrees is in Mexican-American Studies. He has studied, taught, and written about this population beginning in the 1970's. Ted has lived and studied in Chile and visited extensively throughout Latin America.

On May 4, 1991, at the border, Ted Hilton held the world’s first press conference on biometric identification for one of its creators, George Warfel, who had recently testified before Congress. Mr. Warfel unveiled the ID as a tool to stop illegal immigration.

September 1991, Ted Hilton attended with an official County of San Diego delegation to meet congressional staff and lobby in Washington, D.C. for immigrant impact funds due San Diego County from the 1986 amnesty. At the HUD office under Jack Kemp a representative stated illegal aliens are permitted in public housing.

His background includes holding the first daytime demonstrations along the border and in various communities around San Diego County beginning in 1990, demonstrating to worldwide media the lack of border fencing, and illegal migrant camps with fires in public parks and on private property. In 1991, Ted spoke in person to Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes asking her to do a segment on the out of control border, but she did not see that as a major problem or future story.

Ted Hilton is the original author and first to submit the legislation to the state’s Legislative Counsel in 1992 for issuance of the California driver’s licenses to only citizens and lawfully residing residents. SB 976 was written from this text. His proposed initiatives from the early 1990's were later sent to Rep. Sensenbrenner who was crafting the federal Real ID Act of 2005, in which several of the provisions are now included.

Ted Hilton has authored several commentary op-eds; a ground-breaking call to end public school education to illegal aliens in the Sacramento Bee, February, 1992.

On March 4, 1994, Ted Hilton's article on the 14th Amendment was published in The Daily Journal, the legal newspaper for Los Angeles County. The newspaper stated it would research the article for accuracy before printing, and the editors entitled it "Unconstitutional Citizenship." The article revealed the truth about the original intent of the subject to the jurisdiction clause and called on the state to stop registering births to those here unlawfully.

In 1995, the Los Angeles Times printed his article on how to improve identification to stop services to illegal migrants, prevent welfare fraud, and deter criminals.

He has worked closely on the text with the state's attorneys and the same attorneys in Washington, D.C. who wrote Arizona's SB 1070, to create the latest version of the initiative that is projected for the 2012 ballot.