The American Party of Florida (APF) was a political party in Florida, United States, that had its roots in an incident involving the Avon Park city council in July 2006. The city's mayor, Thomas A. Macklin, drafted the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. The APF website said of the Act, "That measure would have penalized landlords who knowingly rented to illegal aliens, businesses who knowlingly employed illegal aliens and would have made English the official language for municipal business in the city." Virtually all the illegal immigrants in Highlands County were Mexicans; Avon Park is located in Highlands County. The measure attracted national attention for a time and much pressure was put upon the city council, which ultimately narrowly voted against the act.