IT was supposed to be Sandra Stirling's shot at the American Dream: a chance to build a future for her and her family.

However, in the end, life in the United States robbed the 42-year-old Glaswegian of her children, and left her sons and daughters facing the prospect of growing up in the American care system.

Stirling was jailed and deported from the US, leaving her four children at imminent risk of being placed into a care home or fostered. She is now fighting for the family to be reunited.

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