The State Department yesterday announced a new round of sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe, and they are significant because they will hit the regime’s leaders where it hurts most: their ability to live luxurious lives at the expense of their oppressed people.

For many years, Zimbabwe’s elite have been sending their children abroad for education, and this phenomenon has increased with the rapid decline of Zimbabwe’s once-highly regarded educational system (the one thing Mugabe got right was investment in education; Zimbabweans had the highest literacy rates of any people on the African continent). The State Department has decided to expand the list of those Zimbabweans under U.S. sanction, which means that five adult children studying here will soon be deported. Good riddance.