In what should be a moment of clarity for anyone paying attention, ICE recently detained an international graduate student from the University of Minnesota. The student—whose name and alleged offenses have not been disclosed—was apprehended near the Twin Cities campus. It’s part of a broader sweep by federal authorities across multiple universities targeting individuals whose activities allegedly align with terrorist sympathies or radical activism.

You’d think people would appreciate a government doing its job—keeping a close eye on foreign nationals with potential ties to dangerous ideologies. But no. Cue the performative outrage and sanctimonious wailing from Democrats like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who rushed to the cameras as if ICE had just kicked in the door of a preschool rather than detained someone who may pose a threat to national security.

Let me remind Governor Walz of something painfully obvious: international students are not entitled to be here. They’re here because we—the United States of America—graciously allow them to be. It is a privilege, not a right. And if we discover that anyone on a student visa is dabbling in radical politics, celebrating terrorism, or otherwise abusing the trust placed in them, we have every right—indeed the obligation—to send them packing.