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Care Families: I Hope and Canadian Citizenship

care families: The 33-year-old mother of four young daughters, who was born in England but left at the age of eight when her parents moved to Ontario, only became aware that she was not a Canadian citizen following a recent drug conviction and incarceration. "I hope there people out there can see this and can help," said Cramman, her face red and puffy from crying. "My kids are my world and I'm scared I'll never see them again." The Canada Border Services Agency looked into her status while she was in custody, discovering that her parents and several foster care families that took her in at the age of 11 failed to secure her Canadian citizenship, according to CTV. As a result, the agency says it wants to deport her as early as Dec. 16. I just kind of want to go back to my room and cry," Fliss Cramman said through tears on Friday after her detention review hearing at the Dartmouth General Hospital, where she is recovering from surgery. A doctor for the Canadian Border Services Agency has deemed Cramman fit to travel with a nurse by that date, despite her surgeon assertion that she is in fragile health and needs to remain in the country for about 18 months to properly recover from a series of colon surgeries done after she was rushed to hospital from a prison facility in Dartmouth on Aug. 12. "If she needs a nurse to travel with her to Heathrow, well holy smokes, what happens to her when gets off the plane " her lawyer John O'Neill said during the hearing, adding that the agency physician did not examine Cramman and did not review her medical records. It has said it will help Cramman address long-standing mental health issues, and a drug addiction that set in following years of physical and sexual abuse. The Elizabeth Fry Society has asked that Cramman be removed from the border agency detention list and released into the group care. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.