as many as 850 people. we will have much more on this in 20 minutes from our senior white house correspondent ed henry. now, i want to show you an x ray like none you have never seen before. take a good look at this. these are people crammed into a tractor-trailer in mexico. they shouldn t have been in the trailer nor in mexico, nor in the united states. where this rig and another like it were allegedly headed. they were stopped yesterday in the southern state of chiapas. 530 migrants who authorities paid $7,000 each to make a journey that is not just illegal but dangerous. in the words of national migration institute, inhuman. and where were they coming from? this, too, will surprise you as well. they came not just from central america but china, nep pal, india, and japan. rafael romo is joining me live from atlanta. first off, rafael, japan? we re not used to hearing about illegal immigrants from asia. reporter: that s right, randi. it used to be that you would find peo
randi. it used to be that you would find people with $50 in their pockets to make the trek north to cross illegal into the united states. but we re seeing people from all over the world traveling to mexico trying to get eventually to the united states and, for example, i was taking a look at the numbers of people from different countries. most of these immigrants, randi, come from central america. 410 of them from guatemala but then you take a look at the numbers from other court trees and, for example, 12 of those people came from india, one from japan, one from china. we ve talking about six from nepal. we re talking about a criminal trans national organization that has a global network reaching across the globe to people in asia and other parts of the world. that s what you have. you have 500 people and all arrested at the same time in two