From the Wall Street Journal — a lesson in inappropriate comparisons:

What we have here is panicked Republicans engaging in pre-election theatrics as they seek to remind voters that they’re tough on the illegal immigration problem they’ve done nothing to actually solve.

Here’s one example of how tough they are. Steve King of Iowa suggested in front of the C-SPAN cameras that at the top of this new fence “we electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it.” Then he added: “We do this with livestock all the time.” Equating people with cattle: There’s an inclusive political message for you.