The Justice Department is expected to announce Monday an effort to denaturalize 17 foreign-born individuals with significant rap sheets. The naturalized citizens include fraudsters, sex offenders, and drug traffickers, who the Trump administration is targeting as part of a larger effort to strip the citizenship of certain offenders. “Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. “We continue to work around the clock with our interagency partners to make sure U.S. citizenship is granted to those who truly deserve it,” Blanche added. In its latest pursuit, the Justice Department is seeking the denaturalization of Cuban-born U.S. citizen Delmas Garcia, 54, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud after she admitted to running 30 physical therapy clinics in Florida that fraudulently billed an insurance company $36,728,595 for services that were not medically necessary or that were never actually provided. The Trump administration has also set its sights on Haitian-born Jean Claude Alfred, 68, who was sexually abusing his minor daughter while he was applying for his American citizenship, according to the Justice Department. Alfred began abusing his daughter in September 1993, roughly one month before he applied for citizenship, and “repeatedly” did so as he waited to become naturalized. During his application process, Alfred denied having committed any crime for which he hadn’t been arrested, the Justice Department said. A jury in Florida ultimately convicted Alfred in 1996 of attempted sexual battery of a child in a familial relationship and lewd, lascivious, and indecent assault upon a child under the age of 16. Alfred became a U.S. citizen in 1994, sparking the Justice Department’s latest action accusing him of lying during his application process in order to obtain naturalization. Another target of the latest denaturalization push is Colombian-born Fernando Cristancho, 69, a Roman Catholic priest who used his position in the church to sexually groom and abuse a minor parishioner from age 11 to 13. Cristancho later pleaded guilty to his crime and received a 22-year prison sentence. The Trump administration alleged that Cristancho concealed his crime from immigration officials in order to obtain his citizenship while also having failed to demonstrate good moral character required for naturalization. The federal government is also working to denaturalize the daughter of a major Colombian drug trafficker, Andrea Marroquin, 44, who inherited her father’s riches when he died. Marroquin first got a green card by hiding her bigamous marriage to an American citizen, according to the Justice Department. Between 2003 and 2011, she used her father’s drug proceeds to make fraudulent real estate transactions in Miami, the Department of Justice alleged. She allegedly concealed her crimes when she became an American citizen in 2009. Last June, the Justice Department instructed U.S. attorneys across the country to “prioritize” and “pursue” denaturalization cases against citizens who may “pose a potential danger to national security.” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials received guidance in December to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month,” according to The New York Times. The denaturalization effort is also part of the Trump administration’s “war on fraud,” USCIS spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a previous statement.