Blind grandmother deported to Poland where she would be alone

69-year-old Stefania Elzbieta Magdziak was deported to Poland last night. She lived with her family for the past eleven years before sharing a final meal with them and finally heading towards the Pearson International Airport.

As the blind grandmother went passed the security gates at Terminal One to get into a Polish LOT flight, family members watched in nervousness. A friend of the family, Ben Gondek, said that there are people who love the old woman and they would try their best to get her back to Canada as a legal immigrant. He said that the family would get her sponsored.

Her 43-year old daughter, Eldona Pindiur, said that no one knows when would be the next time their complete family would sit together again. While Magdziak was counting her last moments in the country, she was surrounded by her two children, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all of whom were finding extremely hard to cope with the situation and weren’t able to bear the pain that their eldest family member was being sent back unwillingly.

She is blind and she does not have any social security or caregiver to take care of her in Poland, except her sister.

Her grandson’s wife, Izabella Magdziak, 29, said that she has no caregiver in that country and Canada is literally throwing her like a waste. She said that all this has happened due to an immoral immigration consultant who advised her to make a failed refugee claim. She appealed to Canada immigration to stay in the country on humanitarian and compassionate grounds but with no one hearing.