Donald Trump's late night proclamation blocking Harvard's new international students has sparked fear and anger among existing students left in limbo amid the escalating showdown between the president and their university.

Alfred Williamson, a Welsh-Danish physics and government student in his second year at Harvard, said he was "clinging onto the hope that Harvard will win this fight and that I will get to return next semester."

Harvard had won a reprieve from a judge who paused an earlier bid by Trump to revoke the university's ability to sponsor the school's large international student population -- 27 percent of the total.

"Then the Trump administration does whatever it can to crush those dreams," Williamson, 20, told AFP of Trump's proclamation Wednesday alleging that "Harvard's co

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