Alexa Avilés

Council member, District 38, New York City Council

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at nine meetings. Named Brooklyn most often: four times.

9 of 16transcribed meetings with their voice identified

0.8min a meeting at the New York City Council, at least

19 of 23present at roll calls, from the clerk

Also sits on 5 committees

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Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda

Four clips, newest first

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Avilés raised, by number of meetings

ICE and immigration enforcement9 meetings
Shelters and homelessness7 meetings
NYCHA and public housing3 meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Avilés’ other bodies

Present at 19 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 4. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Committee on Finance: 0.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–1.6. In the same range as 12 other members.
Committee on Immigration: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Economic Development: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on General Welfare: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions: talk time not compared. We could name only 20% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Committee on Public Housing: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Public Safety: talk time not compared. Seated for only 1 meeting in 12 months.
Committee on Finance: present at 11 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Immigration: present at 9 of 10 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Economic Development: present at 8 of 10 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on General Welfare: present at 11 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions: present at 10 of 13 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Housing: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Safety: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Housing and Buildings: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

What they talk about

Immigration took the largest share of Avilés’ speech with a checked topic: 58%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the City Council and its committees. 105 of 147 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Immigration58%

Homelessness6.0%

Housing and tenants4.7%

Neighborhoods Avilés named

5 places Avilés named in meetings

Lines where Avilés named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

New York

Brooklyn 4 times
Red Hook 2 times, the most of any official
Sunset Park 2 times, the most of any official
Bensonhurst 1 time
Manhattan 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) file (NYC Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data). A dot says the place was named, not where Avilés was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Avilés’ voice

30, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Avilés’ first remark.

Sep 30, 2026Committee on Economic Development3.1 min1:50:24
Sep 22, 2026Committee on Immigration4.2 min44:20
Sep 8, 2026Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions1.5 min25:04
Jun 30, 2026New York City Council3.5 min48:17
Jun 11, 2026New York City Council3.7 min30:18
Jun 10, 2026Committee on Finance0.6 min1:06:36
May 28, 2026Committee on Immigration4.5 min5:25:58
May 28, 2026Committee on Finance4.5 min5:25:58
May 14, 2026New York City Council1.1 min27:40
Apr 16, 2026New York City Council1.8 min50:19

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Mar 25, 2026Committee on Finance3.0 min1:11:00
Mar 17, 2026Committee on Economic Development6.2 min1:55:38
Mar 17, 2026Committee on General Welfare5.5 min1:28:31
Mar 11, 2026Committee on Finance4.2 min1:56:42
Mar 10, 2026New York City Council0.1 min36:11
Mar 9, 2026Committee on Immigration3.4 min15:36
Mar 9, 2026Committee on General Welfare3.0 min1:38:45
Feb 27, 2026Committee on Economic Development11.3 min53:03
Feb 12, 2026New York City Council0.1 min30:22
Feb 10, 2026Committee on General Welfare3.4 min2:16:25
Feb 10, 2026Committee on Public Safety3.4 min2:16:25
Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.3 min43:58
Dec 18, 2025Committee on General Welfare0.2 min8:41
Dec 18, 2025New York City Council0.1 min1:46:09
Dec 8, 2025Committee on Immigration36.6 min22:17
Dec 3, 2025Committee on General Welfare3.5 min1:06:32
Oct 29, 2025New York City Council1.4 min51:06
Oct 29, 2025Committee on Public Housing1.4 min3:15
Oct 28, 2025Committee on Immigration27.1 min7:40
Oct 28, 2025Committee on Economic Development3.7 min17:53

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Avilés’ voice at 30 meetings across eight bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Avilés was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Alexa Avilés’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Avilés said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Avilés or of New York alone.