Editors note: As U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama makes war on the poor people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, while drinking with the police, black newspapers and online services, as routine reporting, are telling of more and more incidents where the police all over the US are, increasingly, firing their guns into the small and frail bodies of African children and young people.

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Featured Article: Legal debate heats up over Ariz. Immigration
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The battle over Arizona's new immigration law escalated Monday as some of the nation's leading civil rights groups filed the latest federal lawsuit over the legislation, arguing that it is unconstitutional and would lead to widespread racial profiling.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix by a coalition of civil rights organizations, said the Arizona law violates the Constitution's supremacy clause, which says federal law trumps state statutes. Immigration enforcement, the lawsuit argues, is an area of "exclusive federal authority."