Rosario v. Holder, ___F.3d ___, 2011 WL 3715279 (7th Cir. Aug. 24, 2011) (The INA requires that the offense relate to the owning, controlling, managing or supervising of a prostitution business. INA 101(a)(43)(K)(i); 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(K)(i) (emphasis added). Those terms are not defined in the INA, and so we give them their plain, ordinary meaning. Smith v. United States, 508 U.S. 223, 228, 113 S.Ct. 2050, 124 L.Ed.2d 138 (1993) ( When a word is not defined by statute, we normally construe it in accord with its ordinary or natural meaning. ) (quoting Perrin v. United States, 444 U.S. 37, 42, 100 S.Ct. 311, 62 L.Ed.2d 199 (1979)). In ordinary usage, to own something is to have or hold as property or appurtenance. Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1612 (1993). To control a thing is to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate, regulate, or command. Webster's College Dictionary 297 (1991); see also Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 285 (9th ed.1983) (defining control as the power or authority to guide or manage). To manage is to control and direct, Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1372 (1993), and to supervise is to oversee with the powers of direction and decision, id. at 2296; see also Webster's New World Dictionary, 1430 (2d ed.1974) (supervise [means] to oversee, direct, or manage ...). The inclusion of these terms as plainly understood requires that the underlying offense not simply stand in some relation to or have bearing or concern with prostitution or a prostitution business, but that the actual statute of conviction stand in some relation to or have bearing or concern with some degree of decision-making authority or position of power in a prostitution business.).

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