Since taking over the Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr has received praise from President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Barr has played a critical role in helping the Trump administration clamp down on illegal immigration — and things are about to kick up a notch.

In another move intending to combat illegal immigration, the Trump administration has established a unit within the Justice Department to target individuals who illegally obtained citizenship status in the United States.

This new unit will be used to strip the citizenship of foreign-born individuals who failed to disclose past convictions of crimes such as terrorism or war crimes.

Other forms of immigration fraud will also be under review by the new section inside the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation.

Those who are found guilty of immigration fraud will be stripped of their citizenship status and may be subject to deportation or denied future entry into the United States depending on their crimes.

Fox News reports:

The section, which will be within the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, will be dedicated to denaturalizing those who had failed to disclose they had been involved in criminal activity on their N-400 form for naturalization. It requires the government to show that citizenship was obtained illegally or “procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.

That form includes questions asking whether an applicant has been involved in genocide and torture among other serious crimes, if they have ever been part of a terrorist or totalitarian organization, if they had been associated with the Nazi government in Germany, and if they have been charged or convicted with a crime or served prison time. Targets for denaturalization are those who have made material breaches of those questions.

“When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system — and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said.

“The new Denaturalization Section will further the Department’s efforts to pursue those who unlawfully obtained citizenship status and ensure that they are held accountable for their fraudulent conduct,” he added.

Fox News notes that the DOJ “has filed 228 civil denaturalization cases since 2008, and 94 since 2017. Officials say it has increased its filing rate by 200 percent in the past three years and has seen an increase in referrals by over 600 percent.”

This comes after Barr announced roughly a week ago that the DOJ had filed new lawsuits against sanctuary policies in New Jersey and Washington.

One lawsuit targets the state of New Jersey, its Democratic governor, and attorney general over a policy that prohibits the sharing of state records with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

The DOJ filed another lawsuit against King County, Washington, and the county’s chief executive over a sanctuary policy that prohibits ICE agents from using the major King County International Airport for deportations and transport of illegal aliens.

Barr has been very busy lately. Last month, the AG imposed a brand new restriction on FBI investigations into presidential campaigns.