that we have. and i think it does. you know, it shows the commitment. we will never moving forward to protect our children and it just shows the continued commit of the united states catholic conference and every archdiocese here. okay. mary ross agosta, appreciate your feeling on that. thank you for coming on. thank you, randi. now, i want to show you an x-ray, none like you ve ever seen before mg these are people crammed into a tractor-trailer in mexico. they shouldn t have been in the tractor nor in mexico or in the united states where this rig was allegedly headed. they were stopped yesterday in the southern state of chiapas near the mexico border, 513 migrants who paid $7,000 each. it s inhumane. and where were these people coming from? well, this, too is going to
semitrucks in mexico. so these rigs got caught but i m just curious, how many trucks like these get through for every one that gets caught. well, the reality is that only a portion of the my grants coming through mexico to the united states ever gets caught. according to the national migration institute, 25,000 people were arrested in mexico last year from other countries which means that potentially you can multiply that number and it s impossible to know how many people are trying to do this. the reality is that the figures tend to be very, very high. i want to take another look at this x-ray because, quite frankly, it s stunning. we were all just amazed by this. those are people crotched down, some standing. packed into these rigs. are trucks in border hot spots commonly x-rayed like this for human cargo? necklace this area of mexico,
very, very far away from mexico, randi. rafael romo. what an incredible x-ray. thanks for bringing that. greenville, mississippi, baton rouge, louisiana, i wish i could say the worst of the flooding is over, but at least the water isn t getting any higher. the swollen mississippi river is cresting as we speak in both of those cities far above flood stage and it will crest over the weekend and in cities in between. not getting higher isn t the same as going down. it will take many, many weeks. that s many weeks of continues stress and strain on levees and flood walls. but those aren t the only source of protection. pumps can mean the different between disaster and mere dampness. so why doesn t south mississippi have any? cnn s rob marciano tried to find out. we have about 300,000 acres under water today in the yazoo backwater area. if we had a pump in place, we would still have about 200,000
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