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A bipartisan package that included stringent domestic border security measures failed in the US Senate in early February. Republican representatives in the House pushed claims it would have allow 5,000 migrants to enter the country illegally every day, but the sponsoring lawmakers and an expert said that distorted the proposal which aimed to expand the executive branch's deportation powers and federal detention capacity.