Weeks before Tuesday’s special House election in New York, Republican Mazi Pilip staged a press conference outside a migrant shelter in Queens to assail Democrats’ handling of the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border that has led tens of thousands of people to seek refuge in the state.
When she finished, her opponent, Democrat Tom Suozzi, was on the scene, preparing a rival press conference to directly address “this immigration crisis that is affecting so many families” and “rebut” some of Pilip’s claims about his views on the matter.
