A Canadian citizen studying at Cornell University on a student visa could be deported to his homeland if convicted of a racist attack on a black fellow student last year in an incident that sent the victim to the hospital.

A white Cornell University student has now been slapped with a hate crime charge in connection with a September assault on a black classmate.

Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 3:58 p.m. EDT: John Greenwood, the 19-year-old Cornell sophomore whom Ithaca police have charged with beating a black classmate, has owned up to using racial slurs. He did not, however, refer to the group assault he’s alleged to have been a part of.