[verst]

I'll provide an alternative narrative: Additional seats at a significant premium are created for international students to allow subsidizing tuition for domestic students and offering of additional services on campus, research positions etc

If you get rid of international students then domestic student tuition will increase and/or campus services offered will decline.

Universities do not want to decrease their endowment. They want to find ways to grow it. And another goal is to increase the international reputation of their institutions. Here international students act like a kind of missionary.

[philosophty]

This narrative describes public companies focused on growth and brand instead of schools focused on offering the best education possible in their country.

They have lost their way. They have been corrupted by bribes heaped upon them by rich international people buying their children advantage.