It is hard to live in another’s skin.

To understand what it feels like when someone else projects his or her bias onto your life.

We can’t imagine what people living in the United States illegally must feel as they enter a restaurant or walk down the street. Most of us who are reading this editorial were born here.

There is one critical fact for those who are here illegally and following the laws of our nation, state and city to know: The U.S. Constitution affords you – affords all of us – protection.

The 14th Amendment states that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Nor will it deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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