Gov. Kathy Hochul is outrageously MIA as New York City Mayor Eric Adams and two suburban counties go to war over what to do with the thousands of migrants flooding downstate, critics charged Tuesday.

Adams told local officials last week he would begin busing scores of the migrants to Rockland and Orange Counties — prompting county leaders to turn around and declare states of emergency to thwart him.

“Where’s the governor? How is she totally MIA on this?” fumed Rep. Michael Lawler, who represents the communities where the migrants are headed in Rockland County, to The Post on Tuesday.

Lawler claimed Hochul appears to be washing her hands of the matter despite her unique position at the helm of state to help resolve the escalating dispute.

“The governor gave a billion dollars to New York City in the budget to deal with the migrant crisis and is now totally missing in action when it comes to New York City shifting the responsibility onto other municipalities,” he said. “New York City has no jurisdiction over these municipalities.”

“The fact that the governor has not even reached out to [County Executive Ed Day, for one] is absurd.”

Lawler said he called Adams’ DC rep Tuesday morning demanding that the city “cease and desist’’ in its plans to bus migrants outside the city.

City Hall did not respond to a Post request for comment Tuesday.

Hochul’s office, after being told of some critics’ comments about the mess, sent The Post a statement Tuesday afternoon saying she would be hosting a 4 p.m. virtual meeting with local leaders across the state to discuss the migrant crisis.

Lawler said earlier in the day that he spoke to Secretary to the Governor Karen Persichilli Keogh on Friday – the highest-appointed position in the state – who said the state was trying to help but wasn’t involved in the location of migrants.

“The governor is basically shirking responsibility,” the Republican congressman said at the time.

“Just dumping migrants into communities is totally unacceptable. The governor and the mayor should be totally embarrassed by their conduct here.”

Former three-term GOP Gov. George Pataki said New York is overwhelmed by the migrant crisis because Hochul and other Democrats have given Dem President Biden a pass for failing to seal the U.S.-Mexico border, leading to tens of thousands of desperate migrants seeking asylum to enter the country illegally and then claim asylum.

 “Our open border is a disaster. It hurt the border states first but is now affecting the entire country,” Pataki told The Post. “Democrat leaders like Hochul need to speak up and demand that Biden act now.”

The criticism comes after disgraced Democratic former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a recent podcast that Hochul should have stepped in months ago instead of leaving New York City alone to shoulder the burden of welcoming and housing migrants. 

“New York City should never have accepted responsibility on its own. The mayor should have said that New York state needed to handle the problem,” Cuomo said on his “Matter of Fact” podcast in February.

He noted that New York prides itself as a “sanctuary state,” as does Gotham as a “sanctuary city,” meaning both extend certain greater protections to undocumented migrants.

Hochul’s team should have helped fairly distribute the placement of migrants in counties across the state, making the burden more manageable, according to Cuomo.

A hot spot in the political firestorm is the Armoni Inn and Suites, where the migrants were set to stay in Orangetown in Rockland County.

Day, a Republican, quickly declared a state of emergency to try to halt them — and threatened to grab Adams “by the throat” if he attempted to offload the city’s growing migrant problem onto his tight-knight community.

More than 60,000 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple since spring 2022, with more than 37,000 housed in city-run or city-funded shelters and facilities, according to city officials — a situation they have said is unsustainable.

So far, the city has opened 122 emergency shelters and eight large humanitarian relief centers to handle the influx, with the plan to send new migrants to Rockland and Orange counties because the Big Apple is running out of space.

Much of the city’s hotel space — with the exception of the most touristy spots in Manhattan — is being reserved for migrants.

But Adams said there’s no more room at the inn, and even a former police academy building was converted into a makeshift migrants shelter and other asylum seekers are being bused to Hudson Valley hotels.