A senior Trump immigration official said he’s “declaring war on fraud” by making the United States citizenship test more difficult because the current version is “just too easy.”

Speaking at an event hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies think tank in Washington, D.C., Thursday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow said that the citizenship test needs to demonstrate the applicant’s “attachment to the Constitution.”

“Simply put, I want to see the naturalization process returned to where I believe it should have been … based on what the Congress has said, based on what the statute says,” Edlow said, in remarks highlighted by Mediaite.

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