I call bullshit.
There's MS13 all over the southwest... Truthfully all over the south from one coast to the other. If she was trying to get away from them, this was absolutely the wrong place to run to. PLUS Mexico is heavy with MS13, so you saying you went on the run by traveling through a hotbed of MS13 activity??? She coulda stopped in Belize 'cause they put the brakes on MS13 there OR gone in the other direction and fled to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, or Venezuela.
I can smell it from here.