Roy Moore, leading candidate in Alabama Senate race, doesn’t know what DACA is

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Federal immigration could change forever under President Trump. The White House is expected to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, the controversial DACA program that has given temporary legal reprieve to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and has given conservatives fits since Obama bypassed Congress to start it in 2012.

But Judge Roy Moore doesn’t know what that means. The former state Supreme Court justice and current front-runner in the special Alabama Senate primary appeared completely unclear on the concept during a July 11th local radio interview. [You can listen below with the exchange starting at 12:25]

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