Pence praises NYC Mayor Adams for bashing Biden over migrant crisis

Mayor Eric Adams garnered effusive praise from an unlikely source for ripping President Biden’s failure to address the unrelenting migrant crisis: former GOP Vice President Mike Pence.

“I’ve got to do a hat tip to the mayor of New York who’s been willing to call out President Joe Biden and his administration for their absolute failure to secure the southern border,” Pence said Monday night on WABC 770 AM’s Cats & Cosby Show co-hosted by John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby.

“New York is not alone. Every major city in the country is busting at the seams … with this avalanche of millions of people that have been let to come into this country.”

Adams has publicly appealed for help and slammed fellow Democrat Biden over three dozen times — with little success — since the unrelenting wave of buses carrying migrants started rolling into the Big Apple last spring.

The dispute has soured relations between the White House and City Hall, with rounds of finger-pointing.

Earlier this spring, Biden’s re-election campaign pointedly excluded Adams — the chief voice of urban America as the mayor of its largest city — from its leadership team of surrogates.

Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have also publicly clashed over how best to address the surge of migrants.

During the radio interview, Pence said Biden erred by rolling back the Trump-Pence administration’s stricter border policies, including constructing a wall along the US-Mexico and a “return to Mexico” rule for migrants who crossed the border illegally.

The result, Pence said: “millions” more migrants illegally crossing the border.

“I negotiated the ‘return to Mexico policy,’” the former VP said, which dramatically curbed illegal border crossings, he said.

“Joe Biden incoherently stopped construction of the wall. You can go down there and see the girders lying on their sides for miles rusting in the sun.”

Pence added, “You put all those things back into effect and you will secure the southern border of the US. I will do that on Day One [if elected president],” he said.

More than 107,000 migrants have passed through New York City since early 2022, and 57,000 currently receive assistance or shelter, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

Adams has claimed the cost to shelter and provide other services to the asylum seekers — which so far is budgeted $5.2 billion — could shatter $12 billion over three years.

He has repeatedly appealed to Biden for help, including financial assistance and expedited work permits for migrants, but to no avail.

The Post has reached out for comment to reps for Biden and Hizzoner.