The Avon Park City Council is scheduled to take a final vote on the ordinance at its meeting at 6 tonight.
The ordinance would prohibit the city of about 8,500 people from licensing any business that aided or abetted illegal immigrants or illegal immigration anywhere in the United States for the past five years. It would also bar renting or leasing property to illegal immigrants and establishes English as the sole language to conduct city business.
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Avon Park is in the central part of Florida between Orlando and Tampa.
Thanks for that. I have family in Avon Park (middle of know where).
Wow. The article you linked seems pretty biased for illegals. From the article:
"Mayor Tom Macklin, who drafted the ordinance, said the city needed it to clean up substandard and overcrowded housing that is often rented to illegal immigrants.
"If we had known that this was going to happen, we would not have moved here," said Mendoza, a Mexican native with U.S. residency. "Although I am a resident I feel like all the (illegal immigrants). If they do something against them, it's as if they were doing it to me. I am dark-skinned and don't know much English. I too am a target for discrimination under the ordinance." The Rev. Jose Gonzalez, pastor of St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Sebring, organized the prayer service in conjunction with immigrant rights groups around the state.
They came from Polk County, Tallahassee, Sarasota and Miami, he said. Gonzalez invited other parish leaders to join the effort against the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, among them the Rev. Jorge Torres, a priest at St. Ann Catholic Church in Haines City and one of the prayer service leaders. Torres said he came with about 20 of his parishioners."