defeating and saying, if you repeal obamacare, have you to replace it with something. but he won t say what you re going to replace it with. i m going to pull up a full screen from the kaiser family foundation. from 2006 to 2011 before obamacare the premiums health care premiums increased at a rate of 31% over the five-year period. since 2011 to 2016, i ll remind people that obamacare came into effect january 1, 2014, health care premiums have increased by 20%. so how do we deal with this lie that we re hearing about the fact that obamacare caused premiums to be higher overall on average? let s use their numbers. let s say if that first five-year period your health care premium was $300 a month. a 31% increase and that would be, what, $62, $63. in the second period where premiums rose 20%, if your premium is $500, what s 20% of $500? $100. which is greater, $62 or $100?
considering everything. not at this time. at this time. i want to turn to immigration in the remaining time that we have left. since the president s tensions became known about the executive actions and order he was going to carry out, has there been an increase in illegal immigration from the south, from the border? no. the numbers are actually way down from where they were last summer when we had the unprecedented spike. we put a very aggressive campaign in place to address it. the numbers fell off dramatically. the numbers in the rio grande valley in texas are the lowest that they have been in two years and a point that needs to be emphasized about the executive actions that we announced, a large component of them is border security. a large component of our executive actions prioritize the deportation of those who recently arrived here illegally. january 1, 2014, on.
testified before congress in 11 months. fifth time before this committee. i feel like i know a number of you well. on november 20th the president announceded a series of executive actions to begin to fix our immigration system. the president views these alaskas as a first step towards reform of the system and continues to count on congress for the more comprehensive reform that only legislative changes can provide. the actions we took will begin to fix the system in a number of respects. to promote border security for the future. and to send a strong message that our borders are no open to illegal immigration. we prioritize those apprehended at the border and those who came here ill lislely after january 1, 2014. regardless of where they are apprehended. we also announced the nextsteps
at what point would it be clear to everybody that this needs to stop? well, megyn, some of these examples are crystal clear. the clearest in my mind are the various obamacare extensions. the statute could not be clearer. it says january 1, 2014, and he has repeatedly extended these deadlines in the teeth of clear statutory text. i think that s just indefensible. but you have a congress, they wanted these delays. they have been saying delay the employer mandate, the individual mandate. so they re really not in the best position to turn around and say, what is he doing? in your view, what is the best remedy for people who have genuine and sincere objections to what is happening? well, first of all, i want to applaud professor turley, the
like. and with a stroke of a pen, president obama says oh, no, i think i will delay that for a year. but, you know, why one year? maybe another year the following year or five years. the interesting thing here is, you know, he is directly contravening a law that says these things are supposed to take effect on january 1, 2014. interestingly here too, the republicans in the house tried to get a one year delay of obamacare and part of it spending measure that went over to the presise the president didn t want to delay it at that time at least legislatively. he doesn t want to amend the laws in the normal ways through congress. he wants to change them himself unilaterally. extending benefits and penalties to the federal exchanges also unconstitutional, you think? absolutely unconstitutional. the law is crystal clear on this that the only people who qualify for the these tax credits are people who live in states that run their own obamacare exchanges. and it turns out that, you know, c