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To the average citizen, the Air Force’s involvement in Rantoul ended three decades ago. To the village of Rantoul it’s taken a full three decades.

The house or sell their property. go to other family members and collect money. they are in desperate circumstances. we talked to one mother. she said, i would rather my child die on the way to the u.s. than die on my front doorstep. they will do what they can to cobble this together. it's not that they pay up front. they may pay in different increments but they find the money. >> stephanie, great reporting. you have been in difficult, scary neighborhoods. take care. kevin applebee, thank you. we'll be right back. this is "hardball," the place for politics. you use tide pods? yeah!

Military. it's right on the border. you go down the san pedro river into mexico. it's a well established route that hundreds, thousands have taken to mexico. >> do you know what it costs for a coyote to transport a kid to the united states? >> we were told $7,000 by a couple of people. >> where does that come from? >> exactly. i can't imagine everyone is able to pay that, if anyone is able to pay. i would imagine there is a scale. but it's definitely a lucrative business. >> that doesn't make sense, stephanie. i have been hearing $5,000. i see these people, dirt poor. kevin, how do you come up...

hell-holes. this is not a job he ran for. it is with him most definitely the job this president now has. adding to the nastiness of the situation, already overflowing with nastiness is the cheap shot, below the belt behavior of this country's supposedly loyal opposition. why? why can't boehner sit out this one political dance? why can't he say that on this crisis, this moral crisis looming before us, we americans can stand together, give these kids the legal hearings they are entitled to. consider their claims for asylum and treat them like innocent needy kids in the meantime. why ca...

Military outposts. we saw a transaction take place in front of us. four kids from honduras made a deal with a coyote. >> what's it cost? >> a member of the guatemala military. it's right on the border. you go down the san pedro river into mexico. it's a well established route that hundreds, thousands have taken to mexico. >> do you know what it costs for a coyote to transport a kid to the united states? >> we were told $7,000 by a couple of people. >> where does that come from? >> exactly. i can't imagine everyone is able to pay that, if anyone is able to pay. i would imagine there is a scale....