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Know Your Rights 了解你的權利

What to Do if You’re Stopped by Immigration Officers

如果移民官員截住你，你應該怎麼辦？

Keep this card handy! If you have a immigration encounter, you can protect yourself.

請隨身攜帶這張卡片！如果遇到移民官員的盤問，你可以保護自己。

This card explains your rights when you are in contact with immigration enforcement officers in New York State. Unless stated otherwise, it applies to both documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as United States citizens. The information in this card does not apply to encounters with immigration officers at the border, international airports or at any other port of entry into the United States. The information in this card does apply to encounters with immigration officers inside the United States, including encounters with immigration officers on domestic trains and buses or in your local community, and encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) and border patrol agents after you have been stopped by local police.

這張卡片解釋了當你在紐約州遭遇移民官員盤查之時你所擁有的權利。除非另有說明，否則卡片上的信息對於在美國的合法移民、非法移民以及美國公民，都是適用的。當你在美國的邊境、國際機場或其它入境口岸被移民官員盤查之時，這張卡片上的信息是不適用的。但是，當你在美國境內（例如，在境內的火車和巴士上，或者在你的社區內）遭遇移民官員盤查之時，還有，當你被警察攔截後並且在接受移民與海關局（ICE ）的執法官員或者邊防官員審問之時，這張卡片上的信息是適用。

Remember, what you say to immigration officers can be used against you in court, and it can give immigration officers a reason to arrest you. So make sure to read this card and keep it handy as you travel across New York State!

切記，你對移民官員所說的話，可能會被用作不利於你的訴訟證據，或者會被移民官員用作逮捕你的理由。請你務必記得閱讀這張卡片。當你在紐約州內出行之時，請隨身攜帶這張卡片！

If You Are Arrested by Immigration Officers: 如果你被移民官逮捕：

1. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to answer questions. You can tell the officer that you want to speak with a lawyer before answering any questions. You may say, “I will remain silent until I speak to an attorney.” You do not have the right to an appointed free lawyer, but you do have the right to talk to a lawyer and to hire one on your own.

1.你有權保持沉默。你無需回答移民官員的問題。你可以告訴移民官員你想先與一位律師商量。你可以回答：“在和律師討論之前，我保持沉默。”你沒有權利享用法庭指定的免費律師，但你有權利諮詢和僱傭自己的律師。

2. You do not have to sign anything giving up your rights, and should never sign anything without reading it first and understanding the consequences of signing it. Signing a document without understanding it could result in you being deported before you see a lawyer or a judge.

2.你沒有必要簽寫任何同意放棄你權利的文件。如果你看不清楚或者看不懂文件，請不要簽字。請不要在任何沒看清楚或看不懂的文件上簽字。如果沒有理解文件就在上面簽字，那可能會導致你直接被驅逐出境，失去找律師或上法庭的機會。

3. Talk to a lawyer before signing anything or making a decision about your situation. If possible, carry with you the name and telephone number of a lawyer who will take your calls. Immigration law is hard to understand. You may have options that immigration officers will not explain.

3.在簽寫任何文件或做任何決定以前，請先和你的律師商量。請盡可能隨身㩦帶願意幫助你的律師的名字及電話。移民法很複雜。移民官員不會向你解釋你所擁有的選擇。

4. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you have the right to call your consulate or to have a law enforcement officer tell consulate officials of your arrest. Law enforcement officers must let your consulate visit or speak with you if consular officials decide to do so. Your consulate might be able to help you find a lawyer.

4.如果你不是美國公民，你有權給你的領事館打電話，你也可以讓警察通知你的領事館，告知他們你被逮捕了。如果你的領事館決定探視你或者與你交談，執法機關的官員必須准許。你的領事館也許能夠幫助你找到一位律師。

If an Immigration Officer Asks You Questions: 

如果移民官员想询问你的公民身份:

1. You have the right to remain silent. You do not have to answer questions asked by immigration officers if you do not want to answer them. This includes questions about your citizenship status, birthplace or place of residence. If you are asked about your immigration status and you wish to remain silent, you may say: “I have the right to remain silent.”

1.你有權保持沉默。如果你不想回答移民官的問題，你可以不回答。你無需回复他們關於你的公民身份、出生地、或住址的問題。如果你不想回答他們關於你的移民身份的問題，或者你想保持沉默，你可以說： “我有權保持沉默。”

2. Always remember that even if you answered some questions, you can still decide that you do not want to answer any additional questions.

2. 如果有些問題你已經回答了，請記住你還可以決定不回答其他問題。

3. Never lie. Do not falsely claim to be a U.S. citizen or to be lawfully in the United States.

3. 不要撒謊。不要謊稱自己是美國公民，或者謊稱自己是在美國合法的移民。

If an Immigration Officer Asks You for Immigration Documents:

當移民官員要你出示移民文件之時：

1. If you are a United States citizen, you do not need to show any documents. You should say, politely, “I am a United States citizen.” You may choose to show documentation, such as your New York driver’s license, which proves that you lawfully reside in the United States.

1. 如果你是美國公民，你無需出示證件。你應該客氣地說“我是美國公民。” (“I am a US citizen.”) 你如果願意，也可以讓其查看能夠證明你在紐約州合法居住的證明文件，比如說，你的駕照等。

2. If you are undocumented and do not have valid U.S. immigration documents, remember that you have the right to remain silent. You can decide not to answer questions about your immigration status or whether you have immigration documents. If you tell an immigration officer that you are not a U.S. citizen and you cannot produce valid U.S. immigration documents, there is a good chance you will be arrested.

2.如果你是無證移民（非法移民），不持有有效的移民證件，那麼請記住你有權保持沉默。在官員問及你的移民身份或者問你是否持有移民證件之時，你可以不回答。如果你跟移民官員說，你既不是美國公民，也無法出示有效移民證件，那麼你很可能會被逮捕。

3. If you are a documented immigrant who is 18 or older and have been issued valid U.S. immigration documents (such as an unexpired permanent resident card, also known as a “green card”), you are legally required to carry those documents with you at all times. If you have your valid U.S. immigration documents and you are asked for them, it is usually a good idea to show them to avoid arrest. Failure to carry valid immigration documents is a misdemeanor crime.

3. 如果你是年滿18歲的合法移民，擁有美國有效的移民證件（例如有效的永久居民卡，俗稱 “綠卡”），依照法律，你必須隨時隨地㩦帶你的移民證��。如果你被要求出示移民證件，那麼你最好出示，以免被逮捕。無證在身屬於一項輕微的犯罪。

4. If you are arrested because you do not have your valid U.S. immigration documents with you, but you have them elsewhere, ask a friend or family member to bring them to you.

4. 如果你擁有合法移民證件，但卻因無證在身而被逮捕，則請拜託親友把證件拿來給你。

5. Never show an officer fake immigration documents or pretend that someone else’s immigration documents are yours.

5. 絕對不要向移民官員出示假證件或者冒用他人的證件。

請瀏覽www.nyclu.org的網站，以便更多地了解NYCLU保護移民權利的工作。如果你覺得移民官員在跟你接觸的時侯侵犯了你的權利，請致電你所在地的NYCLU辦公室:

紐約市總部: (212) 607-3300

紐約州會(Albany): (518) 436-8594

紐約中部(Syracuse): (315) 471-2821

杰納西谷 (Rochester): (585) 454-4334

紐約州哈德遜谷 (White Plains): (914) 997-7479

納蘇州 (Hempstead): (516) 741-8520

薩福克縣 (Central Islip): (631) 650-2301

紐約西邊 (Buffalo): (716) 852-4033

More KYR materials:

了解你的权利从Immigrant Defense Project (简体字)

了解你的權利从Immigrant Defense Project (繁体字)

（通识）了解你的权利从National Immigration Law Center (简体字)

（通識）了解你的權利从National Immigration Law Center (繁体字)

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Cuomo, Nixon argue over who is bigger Trump critic at NY gubernatorial debate

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and challenger Cynthia Nixon argued over who was the stauncher opponent of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in their only debate as they battle for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination next month.

Cuomo, who is seeking a third term as governor, promised he would not run for the U.S. presidency in 2020, despite expectations to the contrary.

In often prickly exchanges over the course of an hour, Nixon, an actress and activist who is running to Cuomo’s left and trailing him in opinion polls, tried to cast the governor as acting mainly in the interests of corporate donors to his campaign.

Cuomo painted Nixon, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO show “Sex and the City,” as inexperienced and naive about the practicalities of New York politics.

Nixon came equipped with statistics and an array of policy positions on topics like rent control and transit funding, which Cuomo frequently rebuffed as flawed.

He described Trump, a Republican, as “the largest threat” faced by New Yorkers, a greater danger than climate change, extreme weather or terrorism. He pointedly criticized Trump for his anti-immigration rhetoric and desire to limit access to abortion.

“Nobody has stood up to Donald Trump like I have,” he said at the debate at Hofstra University on Long Island.

Nixon scoffed at Cuomo’s depiction of himself as a fierce opponent of the president, who like the two candidates is a New York City native.

“You stood up to him about as well as he stands up to Putin,” she said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We need to oppose Donald Trump not just with rhetoric but with policy.”

Critics have accused Trump of being insufficiently critical of Putin.

The debate, just over two weeks before the Sept. 13 gubernatorial primary, may have been Nixon’s best opportunity to convince voters she has a chance of upsetting Cuomo.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo speaks at the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate with Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York August 29, 2018. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Pool via REUTERS

Three polls in recent months all had her trailing Cuomo by more than 30 percentage points.

‘CAN YOU STOP INTERRUPTING?’

Nixon interrupted Cuomo’s answers on several occasions, visibly irritating him.

“Can you stop interrupting?” Cuomo snapped at one point.

“Can you stop lying?” Nixon shot back.

“Yeah,” Cuomo said. He hesitated for a moment. “As soon as you do.”

Cuomo is the son of the late Mario Cuomo, who was a three-term New York governor and considered a liberal lion. The current governor has a long record of government service and had raised nearly 50 times more money than Nixon, according to financial disclosures filed last month.

In one of the more heated exchanges, he criticized Nixon’s setting up of a corporation in order to file her income taxes, an arrangement she said was not unusual among actors and other freelance workers.

He earlier objected to Nixon calling him a “corporate Democrat,” saying repeatedly: “You are a corporation,” and asking as Nixon stared back at him: “Are you a corporation?”

“I’m a person,” Nixon said.

Nixon said New Yorkers should vote for her because she was a longtime champion of causes such as abortion access, better funding for schools and equal rights for gay and lesbian people.

The winner of the Democratic nomination will face Republican Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, in the Nov. 6 election. There are also a few independents in the race.

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Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Leslie Adler and Peter Cooney

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Cuomo, Nixon argue over who is bigger Trump critic at NY gubernatorial debate

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and challenger Cynthia Nixon argued over who was the stauncher opponent of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in their only debate as they battle for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination next month.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo speaks at the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate with Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York August 29, 2018. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Pool via REUTERS

Cuomo, who is seeking a third term as governor, promised he would not run for the U.S. presidency in 2020, despite expectations to the contrary.

In often prickly exchanges over the course of an hour, Nixon, an actress and activist who is running to Cuomo’s left and trailing him in opinion polls, tried to cast the governor as acting mainly in the interests of corporate donors to his campaign.

Cuomo painted Nixon, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO show “Sex and the City,” as inexperienced and naive about the practicalities of New York politics.

Nixon came equipped with statistics and an array of policy positions on topics like rent control and transit funding, which Cuomo frequently rebuffed as flawed.

He described Trump, a Republican, as “the largest threat” faced by New Yorkers, a greater danger than climate change, extreme weather or terrorism. He pointedly criticized Trump for his anti-immigration rhetoric and desire to limit access to abortion.

“Nobody has stood up to Donald Trump like I have,” he said at the debate at Hofstra University on Long Island.

Cynthia Nixon speaks during the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate with Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York August 29, 2018. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Pool via REUTERS

Nixon scoffed at Cuomo’s depiction of himself as a fierce opponent of the president, who like the two candidates is a New York City native.

“You stood up to him about as well as he stands up to Putin,” she said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We need to oppose Donald Trump not just with rhetoric but with policy.”

Critics have accused Trump of being insufficiently critical of Putin.

The debate, just over two weeks before the Sept. 13 gubernatorial primary, may have been Nixon’s best opportunity to convince voters she has a chance of upsetting Cuomo.

Three polls in recent months all had her trailing Cuomo by more than 30 percentage points.

‘CAN YOU STOP INTERRUPTING?’

Nixon interrupted Cuomo’s answers on several occasions, visibly irritating him.

“Can you stop interrupting?” Cuomo snapped at one point.

Slideshow (5 Images)

“Can you stop lying?” Nixon shot back.

“Yeah,” Cuomo said. He hesitated for a moment. “As soon as you do.”

Cuomo is the son of the late Mario Cuomo, who was a three-term New York governor and considered a liberal lion. The current governor has a long record of government service and had raised nearly 50 times more money than Nixon, according to financial disclosures filed last month.

In one of the more heated exchanges, he criticized Nixon’s setting up of a corporation in order to file her income taxes, an arrangement she said was not unusual among actors and other freelance workers.

He earlier objected to Nixon calling him a “corporate Democrat,” saying repeatedly: “You are a corporation,” and asking as Nixon stared back at him: “Are you a corporation?”

“I’m a person,” Nixon said.

Nixon said New Yorkers should vote for her because she was a longtime champion of causes such as abortion access, better funding for schools and equal rights for gay and lesbian people.

The winner of the Democratic nomination will face Republican Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, in the Nov. 6 election. There are also a few independents in the race.

Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Leslie Adler and Peter Cooney

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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A damning, disturbing, infuriating read.

A few notable excerpts from the report by Alice Speri, posted 11 Feb 2018:

The path from school to immigration detention usually goes like this: A teenager, often recently resettled in the United States, gets into some sort of trouble at school. Sometimes, as in Dennis’s case, a fight triggers a criminal charge — making the teen a direct target for removal. Other times, the violation of some school code, official or unofficial, can prompt school administrators to label a teen as a gang member. It could be a shirt of the wrong color, a doodle scribbled on a notebook, lingering a moment too long in a certain hallway, or talking to someone the school has already determined belongs to a gang.

In the absence of a criminal record, it’s not always clear how that information ends up in the hands of police and immigration authorities — but it usually does.

Days, weeks, or sometimes months after the incident that earned them the “gangster” label, teens might find Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials knocking on their doors and detaining them, sometimes transferring them to a facility on the other side of the country — a distinct iteration of the criminalization of youth that some have dubbed the “school-to-deportation pipeline.”

(Dennis) had arrived on Long Island from El Salvador two years earlier, one of more than 8,000 minors who were resettled there after entering the U.S. without a parent or guardian. His mother, who is undocumented and works in a restaurant, had paid $6,000 for a coyote to take him across the Texas border so he could join her and her 2-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, in Hempstead. Laura has two more children in El Salvador, a 9-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. She’s especially worried about the 10-year-old because soon, she said, “the gang will want him to join, or kill him.”

That’s why Dennis fled. He had been living with his grandmother in La Union when a local gang tried to recruit him. After two kids in the neighborhood were killed, he told his mother, “I want to come with you, it’s getting hard here,” Laura recalled. “I wanted to get all my kids here,” she added. “I wanted them to study.”

On Long Island, Dennis kept a low profile. Unaccompanied minors who are released into the U.S. live in legal limbo, and until they receive legal residence, they remain undocumented and potentially at risk of deportation.

His mother cobbled together another $5,000 to pay an immigration attorney to file for his legal residence, which was still being processed at the time of the hallway fight. Dennis liked school, he said, but he mostly liked working with his stepfather, doing construction work on weekends. He didn’t learn much English, and he didn’t make many friends.  “Friends bring trouble,” his mother said.

In fact, as sensationalized accounts of an MS-13 invasion of Long Island started spreading amid a streak of murders, Laura started to worry about gangs there too, though she said things remained much worse in El Salvador. “Here, you don’t see them, you just hear there’s gangs,” she said. Then the school called her about Dennis’s fight, and an administrator told her, “You know how these kids in gangs are, always trying to start a fight.”

“I got scared,” Laura said. In El Salvador, “if you don’t join, they kill you, and here it’s just starting to be the same.” She began driving Dennis to school and picking him up to keep him safe. “My country is dangerous,” Dennis told me. “I didn’t know they’d be here too.”

“Their purpose is, get as many young people deported, regardless of whether any of these gang connections are true or not, whether they’re criminal or not,” said Walter Barrientos, Long Island coordinator with Make the Road New York, a group that works closely with families caught between the dual fears of gangs and ICE.

“In essence, what they’re doing is what they did post-9/11 with Muslim men,” he added. “We just don’t have a Guantánamo; what we have is all these immigration detention centers they’re sending young people to.”

An ICE official in New York defended the agency’s enforcement operations as “intelligence driven.” “HSI does not profile or make arrests with prejudice, but rather uses reliable information gathered through multiple sources which results in the arrest of an individual,” the official said. Operation Matador, the official added, allows the agency a “more proactive approach” — meaning officers can execute administrative arrests, based on alleged gang members’ immigration status, rather than “sit back and wait” for them to commit crimes.

So far, Operation Matador has led to more than 400 arrests of what ICE calls “transnational gang members” on Long Island. Of those, 228 were alleged MS-13 members, about half of whom were taken into custody via administrative arrests, according to the agency.

...Trump and Republican members of Congress weren’t the only ones to seize on the Long Island murders to push for harsher law enforcement and the criminalization of immigrant youth.

Last September, on the first anniversary of Kayla’s and Nisa’s deaths, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo showed up on Long Island pledging “zero tolerance” and statewide anti-gang legislation. He promised to station state troopers in 10 high schools across the island. “Students could come to the state police officer and say, ‘You know, confidentially, I’ve been bullied and I don’t know what to do,’” Cuomo said.

The proposal drew the immediate condemnation of youth advocacy groups, as well as some schools (which were reportedly blindsided by the governor’s move). “This is the exact opposite of what we all wish to see and need,” said Rahsmia Zatar, executive director of STRONG, the organization that runs the anti-gang program that Dennis attended.

Cuomo’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

“When youth of color are dealing with some serious issues, the suggestion is always corrections and incarceration and let’s arrest,” Sergio Argueta, STRONG’s founder, told me in an interview. “The schools are dealing with significant issues. They don’t have personnel that are culturally competent, that can even communicate with these individuals in the same language. They’re oftentimes the most underfunded, under-resourced districts. Clearly the easy release valve for all this pressure is, Oh, let’s get the precinct in.”

That’s problematic enough when the students are U.S. citizens, but for undocumented kids, it can mean a direct line to deportation. Schools don’t share information with ICE directly, but local police departments work closely with federal immigration officials, particularly in the absence of sanctuary policies, which means that information gathered by police officers stationed in schools, no matter how inaccurate, can quickly make its way to immigration officials with little interest in discerning between criminals and everyone else.

“You’re not only suffering criminal consequences, but immigration consequences,” Julie Mao, an attorney with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, told me. “It just becomes a cascading cause and effect, where you have perhaps a school administrator accusing someone of being ‘gang’ based on very thin evidence, and that becomes something that is written and put into that student’s file. Maybe there’s a suspension or some kind of school-related proceeding where there’s a paper trail — that often gets passed to the local police agency if local police is in that school, and then that gets passed on to immigration.”

“So you have these crazy situations where immigrant youth might one day get arrested by immigration, and they go to a hearing to obtain bond and suddenly they’re accused of being gang-affiliated,” Mao added. “And that might relate to something that maybe happened years ago, and they got suspended and some teacher maybe wrote one sentence accusing them of being gang-affiliated, and on that evidence, the immigration judge is now denying your release.”

“It’s not necessarily a top-down policy,” said Bryan Johnson, a Long Island attorney who has represented several youth accused of gang affiliation. “But the school officials are very reckless about the privacy of these students. They’ll share things with the SRO and not even think about what the consequences might be. It goes from the school to the SRO, then the police directly share it with ICE.”

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Get the best immigration attorney in New York to fight against Deportation

The biggest fear of any immigrant; Deportation or in simpler terms removal. Whenever you do this you need to get in contact with a reliable immigration lawyer New York can offer as soon as possible.  Especially for those who have a family and jobs, they work so hard for.

How to tackle the deportation? The Deportation process begins when you receive a Notice to Appear (NTA). You need to read the NTA carefully to find out what is the reason behind the sudden deportation.

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For example in case you are facing deportation because of a name mix up then your lawyer can help you solve the confusion.

What you can do is apply for a visa on the basis of any one of your relatives who is a legal resident of the US.

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Cuomo vs Nixon: Trump animus takes center stage at NY governor debate

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and challenger Cynthia Nixon argued over who is the stauncher opponent of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in their first and only debate in the campaign for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination next month.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo speaks at the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate with Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York August 29, 2018. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Pool via REUTERS

Cuomo, who is seeking a third term as governor, promised he would not run for the U.S. presidency in 2020, despite expectations to the contrary.

He described Trump, a Republican, as “the largest threat” faced by New Yorkers, a greater danger than climate change, extreme weather or terrorism. He pointedly criticized Trump for his anti-immigration rhetoric and desire to limit access to abortion.

“Nobody has stood up to Donald Trump like I have,” he said at the debate at Hofstra University on Long Island, which was to be broadcast on a tape delay later on Wednesday by CBS News.

Cynthia Nixon speaks during the Democratic gubernatorial primary debate with Cynthia Nixon at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York August 29, 2018. J. Conrad Williams Jr./Pool via REUTERS

Nixon, an actress and activist who is seeking office for the first time, scoffed at Cuomo’s depiction of himself as a fierce opponent of the president.

“You stood up to him about as well as he stands up to Putin,” she said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump appears to have developed a close relationship. “We need to oppose Donald Trump not just with rhetoric but with policy.”

The debate comes just over two weeks before the Sept. 13 gubernatorial primary, where voters will pick the Democratic Party’s candidate for the November election. It may be Nixon’s best opportunity to convince voters she has a chance of upsetting Cuomo.

Three polls in recent months all had Nixon trailing Cuomo by more than 30 percentage points.

Nixon interrupted Cuomo’s answers on several occasions, visibly irritating him.

Slideshow (5 Images)

“Can you stop interrupting?” Cuomo snapped at one point.

“Can you stop lying?” Nixon shot back.

“Yeah,” Cuomo said. He hesitated for a moment. “As soon as you do.”

Cuomo, a native of New York’s borough of Queens, comes from one of the state’s most powerful Democratic families. Cuomo, whose father, Mario Cuomo, was a three-term New York governor and regarded as a liberal lion, has a long record of government service and had raised nearly 50 times more money than Nixon, according to financial disclosures filed last month.

Nixon is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO show “Sex and the City,” for which she won an Emmy.

Nixon, a Manhattan native, said during the debate that New Yorkers should vote for her because she has been a longtime champion of causes such as abortion access, better funding for schools and equal rights for gay and lesbian people.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro is the Republican nominee in the gubernatorial race. There are also a few independents in the race.

Reporting by Jonathan Allen; editing by Frank McGurty and Leslie Adler

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