Colleges love them. Colleges welcome them with open arms, because they are dark and belong to a group that promises to eliminate Western Civilization. Colleges give them priority in admissions and free tuition, paid for by the normal people who built up Western Civilization.
Is this madness? If not, then what is is?
>> Is this madness? If not, then what is is?
Your nick kinda spells it out, doesn’t it?
Colleges and particularly professors love them because they come here on student visas. You can work them as hard as you want and they can’t complain or they get shipped home in disgrace. Think indentured servants from 300 years ago and you’ll be on the money.
Speaking as an alumnus of a prominent private university that had a 40% foreign born student body, and as someone with two friends in admissions at a large public university, I can tell you that the real reason is that the foreign students pay full tuition, either via daddy or their governments. There is also the residual belief that these folks will become the elites in their countries, enhancing the university's reputation on a global basis.
Don't confuse the foreign students with the affirmative action cases, the latter of which wind up flunking out or dropping out after two semesters because they can't/couldn't do the work.