Blanche v. Lau · ¶80

The Congress that crafted §1101(a)(13)(C) did not share the Government’s anxieties about the detrimental impact that making this determination would have on processing immigrants at the border. Quite to the contrary, it anticipated that border officers would be “able to determine from the information supplied by the alien whether he falls within the ‘criminal’ category of excludables, notwithstanding the fact that there may be no record of conviction or admission of the commission of a specific offense.” H. R. Rep. No. 1365, 82d Cong., 2d Sess., 48 (1952) (emphasis added). If the Government feels this assessment is outdated, “its . . . recourse lies in Congress, not in the courts where litigants are generally entitled to expect that statutes will ‘be enforced as written.’” Feliciano v. Department of Transp., 605 U. S. 38, 54 (2025) (citing Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U. S. 497, 525…

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