In rare NYC visit, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lauds Mayor Adams, Gov. Hochul for pressuring Biden over migrant crisis

NEW YORK — During a rare visit to New York on Wednesday, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott commended Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul for publicly pressuring President Biden to do more to alleviate the city’s migrant crisis — and urged them to crank it up a notch by joining him in calling for hardline policy prescriptions, like building a wall along the U.S. southern border. Abbott, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, offered the favorable comments about the Democratic mayor and governor during a breakfast event at the Yale Club in Midtown hosted by the right-leaning Ma...