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American population seeking asylum is a crime. >> you want to deter people from coming. what is the game plan for the children? why are they here? tell us, please. >> thanks very much for the coverage. >> thank you. okay. in the category of problems you didn't have to have, that you now have to try and solve, taxpayers are picking up the cost of president trump's immigration policy. now taxpayers are picking up the cost of another set of policies on trade. this part is -- just in, the trump administration is going to send billions of dollars in aid to u.s. farmers who have been affected by t...

The increase in tariffs on soy beans is a big deal to our farmers in ohio. i will say having talked to a bunch of farmers over the weekend, i got the same refrain which is we want trade not aide. we want open markets and we want to sell our product, we don't want to be dependent on government for a handout as they call it. i don't think this will be very popular among the rank and file farmers, although $12 billion is a lot of money. >> sure. >> second, i do think there are other sectors of the economy that are also responding and saying, well, how about us? so whether it's workers in the manu...

Beans. they're literally having to pay farmers to try to convince them to grow soy beans instead of a more lucrative crop. >> that may provide some hope for soy bean farmers who have seen prices plunge over the last several months from almost there is 11 bucks a bush el to less than $8.50. it's not just soy bean prices, corn also. so have wheat prices. and you can see the decline here over the past month with a few spikes. with china slapping a 25% tariff on pork, hog prices have plunged from nearly $80 to just over $67. collectively america's farmers stand to lose billions this year alone. >>...

Pg&e will come out and mark your gas and electric lines so you don't hit them when you dig. call 811 before you dig, and make sure that you and your neighbors are safe. welcome back to "velshi and ruhl ruhle". this morning commerce secretary wilbur ross says he envisions progress soon in president trump's trade wars. ros appear thd morning on cnbc. >> i think we will have made very substantial progress well within a year, because the other parties are finding it's not such a life of bed and roses to be in the current situation with us. china, for example, is having a very difficult time impl...

>> vaughan, they grow two crops. >>reporter: yeah. ali and stephanie, we're here because going to china from any. i'm going to bring doug. >> we farm 2,000 acres but 1,000 are currently in soy beans. >>reporter: what we just heard from the commerce secretary, there does not look like there's an end to the trade war in sight. what is the current price of soy beans? >> $8 a bushel. >> what do you need. >> we need at least $10 to sustain the farming operation. >> you're a ways off yes. >> what is the immediate and long-term impact. >> the immediate is if a person doesn't have crops sold, that sto...