The City Council of Avon Park, Florida, rejected an ordinance Monday that would have cracked down on illegal immigrants after one member changed her vote in spite of strong protests. The ordinance, called the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, would have fined landlords $1,000 for every tenant found to be an illegal immigrant, denied city permits, contracts and grants to businesses that employed illegal immigrants and required city documents to be in English only.
See "Florida City Rejects Stringent Law on Migrants", Abby Goodnough, The New York Times, July 24, 2006