NEW YORK — The two candidates in this month’s special House election on Long Island, Tom Suozzi and Mazi Melesa Pilip, met Thursday in a fiery hourlong debate, trading attacks over immigration, abortion and each other’s records. Pilip, the Republican nominee and a Nassau County legislator, sought to tie Suozzi, the Democrat, to his party’s far left and to blame him for New York City’s migrant crisis. Suozzi, a centrist, responded by portraying himself as eager to work across the aisle to fix problems, and by describing his rival as inexperienced and evasive. At one point, he forced her into a …
