'I'm just thankful to be here in America': An asylum-seeker speaks out about narrowly escaping getting separated from his son

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• An asylum-seeker named José spoke with Business Insider about his journey to the United States and how he had feared being separated from his young son.
• Like many other migrants and asylum-seekers, the pair traveled north from Honduras to the US-Mexico border, where the US Border Patrol arrested them.
• José said that God answered his prayers and kept him with his son and that he felt welcome in America.

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MCALLEN, TEXAS — As José and his young son made their way to the United States last week from their home country of Honduras, they prayed to God that the rumored family separations at the border wouldn't happen to them.

"God, I ask you to keep me with my child, I ask that you keep in mind that I am traveling for safety and that you allow it to continue to be so," José recalled saying.

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