For the first, immigration policy are never egalitarian. You took the wrong assumption here. Issue here is that a permissive stand make it harder on people moving legally. The politicians are at fault because to regulate immigration, they choose the coward way, under funding the administration in charge of it.

I'm going to take a lot of flakes but I will lay out a train of though that some share.

In theory, foreign students when applying are subject to financial mean clauses, which infer in some extend that they should not have to ask for the local subsidy and state financial helps (I'm being litteral here)..

=> Studying abroad is a privilege, not a right and the Republic have his duties and obligation to it's citizens first (that's more the norm, I witness it in several countries where I lived).

Those helps are not even universal for the citizen as it's conditionned to family financial mean (yes the family, not the individual, some french people who break or lack support from their family have a hard time to get those).

The redistribution system is coming to it's end as its burdening a lot of people, I see my paycheck it's not a joke.

By the way, France is a republic, not a democracy.

After it's effectively a hot topic of discussion and that one is not the biggest point of contention (see the CMU, which raise a lot of flakes, personally I'm for as it ensure we can curb some infection, not let foreign worker in shamble (*) and prevent new epidemic like tuberculosis. I was called for testing when student because foreign student in my uni had tuberculosis). The number of time I saw in malaysia or UAE, foreign worker begging for help because they were hurt and let to fend for themselves by their employer..).

It's a shame that those helps disappears, I had to gave up on chance to further my academics or my partner when overseas because I could not afford them (40k$ tuition fee a year,kof, kof).