GOPers to Kat: Be like Tex. gov

Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik and eight other New York Republican lawmakers Friday demanded that Gov. Hochul follow Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s lead by taking measures to secure the northern border amid a surge in illegal crossings from Canada. In a letter to Hochul, they told Hochul they were “shocked” she was not among the 25 governors — all Republican — who signed a joint statement Thursday in support of Abbott’s efforts to secure the southern border.

“Given the influx of illegal immigrants to New York, we call on you to take efforts to secure the Northern Border, and support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his efforts to do the same for our Southern Border,” the New York lawmakers argue.

Stefanik, whose district borders on Canada, and her allies point to the Border Patrol’s 91,640 migrant encounters last year along the New York-Canada border.

Abbott has invoked what he asserts is the Lone Star State’s “constitutional right to protect and defend our southern border.”

His strategy for combating migrant crossings, which the Biden administration argues is unconstitutional, has included installing razor wire and floating barriers along the illegal entry point hotspots, signing legislation that allows state authorities to arrest and jail illegal border-crossers and busing tens of thousands of asylum seekers to so-called “sanctuary cities.”

“Far Left Kathy Hochul has openly admitted that New York taxpayers cannot afford to continue subsidizing the illegal immigrants pouring in through our borders,” Stefanik told The Post.