Elsie Encarnación

Deputy whip, District 8, New York City Council

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at nine meetings. Named Bronx most often: seven times.

4 of 13transcribed meetings with their voice identified

0.4min a meeting at the New York City Council, at least

18 of 18present at roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Committee on Immigration; sits on 4 more committees

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

Two clips, newest first

Elsie Encarnación · Chair · Committee on Immigration · Mar 25, 2026 · 39:46
“I’m glad to hear that. And speaking of centering the lived experience, I know that many of our immigrant families are experiencing a lot of mental health issues as a result of what they’re experiencing from the federal government, including depression, PTSD, substance abuse, anxiety, and so much more.”
Elsie Encarnación · Member · Committee on Land Use · Mar 23, 2026 · 38:39
“How do you plan to regularly assess and update those numbers so that the shelters are fairly distributed across the city?”

Issues Encarnación raised, by number of meetings

ICE and immigration enforcement9 meetings
NYCHA and public housing4 meetings
Shelters and homelessness4 meetings

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

Every roll call, and Encarnación’s other bodies

Present at 18 of 18 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 0. Jan 7, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: 0.7 min of speech a meeting, range 0.1–1.5. In the same range as five other members.
Committee on Immigration: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Committee on Public Housing: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Hospitals: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: talk time not compared. We could name only 8% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
Committee on Public Safety: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Immigration: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Housing: present at 5 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: present at 16 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Hospitals: present at 2 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: present at 21 of 23 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Public Safety: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Land Use: present at 14 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

What they talk about

Immigration took the largest share of Encarnación’s speech with a checked topic: 67%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the City Council and its committees. 90 of 107 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Immigration67%

Housing and tenants14%

Health and behavioral health3.7%

Neighborhoods Encarnación named

4 places Encarnación named in meetings

Lines where Encarnación 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

Bronx 7 times
East Harlem 3 times, the most of any official
Manhattan 2 times
Brooklyn 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 Encarnación was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Encarnación’s voice

20, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Encarnación’s first remark.

Sep 22, 2026Committee on Immigration25.5 min0:37
Sep 22, 2026Committee on Public Housing4.0 min1:08:02
Sep 1, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics1.6 min2:49:48
Aug 13, 2026New York City Council1.7 min18:52
Jul 21, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises0.5 min47:25
Jun 30, 2026New York City Council1.5 min1:17:04
May 28, 2026Committee on Immigration15.6 min4:20:46
Apr 16, 2026New York City Council1.1 min1:23:26
Apr 10, 2026Committee on Public Housing3.2 min1:31:29
Mar 25, 2026Committee on Immigration12.0 min31:12

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Mar 24, 2026Committee on Public Housing5.5 min1:15:58
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Land Use2.0 min35:57
Mar 18, 2026Committee on Public Safety2.7 min1:47:29
Mar 16, 2026Committee on Hospitals2.0 min1:22:36
Mar 12, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics3.5 min1:10:46
Mar 9, 2026Committee on Immigration20.5 min10:04
Mar 2, 2026Committee on Hospitals1.4 min58:55
Feb 25, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics1.0 min38:34
Feb 23, 2026Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises0.1 min10:52
Jan 7, 2026New York City Council1.2 min42:43

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 Encarnación’s voice at 20 meetings across eight bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Encarnación was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Elsie Encarnación’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 Encarnación 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 Encarnación or of New York alone.