Perry's Guard call up already having deterrent effect?

AFP/Breitbart:

Texas Governor Rick Perry's plan to send troops to reinforce the Mexican border was enough to deter Salvadoran couple Edwin and Sandra, who decided to make a difficult trek through New Mexico instead. 

The young couple, who are expecting a baby in six months, are crossing Mexico aboard an infamous freight train known as "The Beast," which tens of thousands of Latin Americans hop on each year to make their way to the US border.

Carrying two small backpacks, the pair had jumped off The Beast -- actually a network of trains crossing Mexico from south to north -- to stop for the night at Christ the King, a shelter in the central Mexican town of Apizaco that provides rooms to migrants hoping to sneak into the United States.

The couple had been on the road for 18 days since leaving El Salvador, but when they heard the news about presidential prospect Perry's move to send 1,000 National Guard reservists to the already tightly guarded border, they decided to ditch their plan to cross at Eagle Pass, Texas, and take an even longer route.

"A friend told me he crossed in New Mexico. Nobody goes there. It's very far, very high and you have to walk about three days through the desert," said Edwin, 36, who lived for years in Dallas and has done this all before.

Sandra said she was more worried about the more immediate danger they faced: a long row of concrete barriers set up along the train tracks in 2012 in the town of Apizaco.

The barriers are part of the Mexican government's efforts to stop migrants from riding The Beast, where, officials say, they risk falling off or being assaulted by criminal gangs that target the trains.

But the barriers are a danger themselves. Eight people have lost one or both legs at the barriers, according to Martin Morales, who runs the Christ the King shelter.
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They should go home.  If the word has gotten out this quickly about Perry's Guard call up, why hasn't the more dangerous aspects of the trip been publicized in Central America.  Something does not ad up at this point.