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WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is planning to make the U.S. citizenship test more difficult, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow, who spoke at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington on Thursday.

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Edlow said at the think tank that the current test is "just too easy" and argued that people can be "coached" on how to pass—people who may not qualify for citizenship under U.S. law.

"A question of simply, ‘hey, name two federal holidays’ and, you know, ‘name one branch of government’ or ‘name your governor.’ It’s simply not enough," he said. "We need to know more, especially if we’re going to really understand whether someone has a true attachment to the Constitution as required by the statute."

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