Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her 2024 policy agenda in a State of the State address Tuesday — but remarkably failed to mention plans for tackling the billion dollar migrant crisis that is plaguing the Big Apple.

The Democrat, who did manage to quote “philosopher” Taylor Swift, steered clear of the controversial asylum seeker issue as she delivered the annual remarks in Albany.

Hochul’s full 180-page agenda, too, was absent of any mention of “migrants,” “asylum seekers” and “refugees.”

The governor instead laid out a list of 204 other priorities in the lead up to this year’s pivotal election season for the state Senate and Assembly — including a crackdown on shoplifting and illegal smoke shops, and a string of housing and education policies.

“Today, I’m going to just focus on a few key common sense items for our agenda: Fighting crime, fixing our mental health system and protecting New Yorkers’ hard earned money,” the governor said, adding that she would address the migrant crisis in next week’s planned budget speech.

Asked about the absence of the migrant crisis in the governor’s remarks, Mayor Eric Adams – who was in Albany for the address – said he’d recently met with Hochul and they had agreed both the state and city were being lumped with a “national problem.”

“The national government must deal with this issue but it’s in our laps right now and we both understand. The most important thing is the presence of support in the budget. I’m not disappointed,” Hizzoner said.

“We’re going to work together to come to a real number to deal with the financial costs.”

The state has already spent $1 billion and promised an additional $1 billion to help the Big Apple deal with the relentless influx of migrants straining city coffers.

Here is a rundown of some of Hochul’s 2024 agenda:

Hochul is pushing for a New York State Police-led “smash and grab” unit, which will be modeled off the state’s existing gun trafficking task force, in a bid to drive down a spike in larceny incidents and retail thefts.

Under the plan, district attorneys would be given additional funding to prosecute shoplifters and proposed legislation would increase criminal penalties for crooks who assault retail workers.

“These attacks are nothing more than a breakdown of the social order. I say no more. The chaos must end,” Hochul said of retail theft.

In a bid to further combat the organized retail crime scourge, Hochul will also push to make it illegal to facilitate the sale of stolen goods online.

The governor is proposing a new law to ramp up the campaign to whack illegally operated weed shops that have sprouted up statewide and across the Big Apple.

The legislation will give local authorities, such as the Sheriff’s Office and NYPD, the power to padlock unlicensed cannabis stores.

“These are necessary steps towards shutting down unlawful and unlicensed cannabis operations that jeopardize public safety and the integrity of the state’s legal cannabis market,” Hochul’s plan states.

A major priority for Hochul this year is to reach a deal with progressives to create more housing across the state – specifically the urgent need to increase the Big Apple’s supply.

She pushed hard in 2023 on a housing plan that ultimately failed after it was panned in the city’s suburbs for measures that would have set growth targets and sometimes let the state override local zoning decisions.

Now, with the suburbs emerging as must-win areas for congressional Dems, Hochul has taken a different approach this year.  

She has proposed a $500 million fund for infrastructure improvements to state-owned land that could fit up to 15,000 new apartments. 

Hochul is also pushing to revive a program that previously gave tax breaks for developments that set aside certain percentages of units into rent-stabilization.

In addition, the governor is backing lifting the cap on residential building sizes in Gotham and is pushing to legalize existing basement and cellar apartments.

“The obscenely high costs of rent and mortgages are caused by the unconscionable shortage of housing in New York. It’s one of the forces driving people out of our state,” she said. 

“Let’s be honest with New Yorkers: the only thing that will solve the housing affordability crisis is building hundreds of thousands of homes. New Yorkers are tired of waiting, and so am I.”

Hochul announced what she called a historic $1 billion commitment to improving mental health, including more psych hospital beds, expanding mental health courts and oversight of screening for possibly dangerous patients.  

“Troubled individuals commit violent acts, and too often we learn they fell through the cracks after being discharged from a hospital,” the governor said in the policy doc.

In a push to stamp out the illegal distribution of deadly opioids and additives, Hochul is proposing legislation to update the state’s controlled substances schedule to include new fentanyl analogs, xylazine and other prescription meds.

Hochul revealed she will advance legislation this year to expand the list of offenses eligible for prosecution as a hate crime — particularly in the face of rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.

“We propose to make more than two dozen additional offenses — from gang assaults or graffiti — eligible for prosecution as hate crimes,” the governor said.

“Since the horrific attacks by Hamas against Israel on October 7, there has been roughly a 95% increase in hate crimes against Jewish residents of New York City and we’re seeing a surge of anti Muslim hate crimes as well.

“Our neighbors are being targeted on playgrounds and synagogues and mosques and on college campuses — and I will not rest until every Jewish and Muslim child feels safe going to school or entering a house of worship.”

Hochul’s agenda book briefly mentions her backing of the controversial congestion pricing by pushing to complete an environmental review with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and local and federal partners.

She stopped short, however, of referencing the unpopular $15 toll that Big Apple drivers could be on the hook for to drive on busy Midtown Manhattan streets.

Separately, Hochul threw her support behind extending the Second Avenue Subway west from 125-Lexington to Columbia University, which would add three new stops and create the first crosstown route uptown.

Hochul made clear she will oppose any attempt by progressives in her party to boost the income and other broad-based taxes – even lumping the tax-happy crowd in with criminals and predatory lenders.

“How do I intend to keep that promise in the coming year? By taking on persistent crime like retail theft, hate crimes, and domestic violence. By revolutionizing our mental health infrastructure so people can actually get the help they need. And by protecting your hard earned money from bad actors and predatory lenders, and from politicians who want to raise your taxes,” she noted in the agenda.

In the week leading up to her State of the State remarks, Hochul had already touted pillars of her agenda, including an overhaul of literacy education and paid medical leave during pregnancy.

Others included an elimination of co-pays for insulin on some insurance plans, funding for swimming pools and programs and an advisory panel for artificial intelligence.

Elsewhere during her address, Hochul hailed her “bold” initiatives, saying they would “make New York more affordable, more livable and safer.”

She also referenced Taylor Swift as she noted how the proposals laid bare in her 2024 agenda would help New Yorkers thrive.

“Quoting the philosopher Taylor Swift,” she said to laugher, “she reminds us that everybody here ‘was somebody else before’.”

“Although people might live fundamentally different lives, they still stand side by side on the subway platform or sitting at a counter a diner in upstate or Long Island. United as New Yorkers,” Hochul added.

Migrant advocates, however, were quick to rip Hochul over her lack of asylum seeker mentions in the lengthy remarks.

“New York has welcomed over 150,000 asylum seekers in less than two years and is home to over 4.4 million immigrants, but we are nowhere to be found in the governor’s State of the State address,” Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition said.

“We are disappointed by the governor’s omission of critical immigration legal services among her top priorities,” Shayna Kessler, of the Vera Institute of Justice, added.

“We need an urgent and proactive response to welcome new migrants to New York as well as long-term solutions that can fill the gaps in the current system.”

Aside from avoiding the migrant crisis, Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf noted that Hochul’s remarks were largely absent of anything controversial at all.

“No hits, no runs, no errors,” he told The Post. “Nothing that would get Democrats angry in a year that they would pick up seats. They want to pick up seats and controversies would hurt that.”

Additional reporting by Aneeta Bhole