Former congressman, convicted felon, and current Staten Island/Bay Ridge Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm defended the Trump administration's immigrant child separation policy yesterday, comparing the cries of kids at the border to cries from a daycare.

Michael Grimm says if people went to a nursery after a mother leaves her child there they would hear the "same exact things" as kids crying after being separated from their parents at the border. pic.twitter.com/p5FnlFm0fX — Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) June 20, 2018

"I think it’s extremely unfortunate, but what people are forgetting—they just want to listen to those tapes," Grimm told NY1. "You know, I can take you to any nursery and you’re going to hear the exact same things as a mother has to leave for work and has to leave her child at daycare. You’re going to hear those exact same things, OK?"

"I think when you really look at it, those children haven’t been that safe in a long time and the conditions they have are much better than where they came from," he added.

Anyone not brainwashed by the Fox News machine probably doesn't need Gothamist to point out that it is patently absurd and morally reprehensible for Grimm to make this comparison. Tara Neubrand, a 36-year-old pediatric emergency physician, spoke to BuzzFeed about the debilitating, traumatizing effects of separating migrant children from their parents. She said that the children she has met who were removed from their parents somewhere along the border "clung so tightly, and so completely, to their foster mothers, both in the ED [emergency department] and at home, that they were literally unable to be put down. They didn't explore the world, they were terrified that their world would be broken for a second time. Their trauma, and the direct effect it was having on their development, was obvious."

"I'm just trying not to ruin his life. He screams every day for his pappa, and I don't even know where his pappa is," Neubrand said one foster mother tearfully told her.

Grimm is challenging SI Rep. Dan Donovan in the upcoming Republican primary—and Donovan is also toeing the party line. "They are horrible images, but the United States has taken good care of those children," the congressman told NY1. "So many of those — ten thousand of those children — are sent across the border unaccompanied. We've taken care of those children."

"Right now, the Trump administration is obeying the law. A child comes across our borders unaccompanied, we take care of that child. The few thousands of children being separated by their families — the Trump administration's interpretation of the law is that what they are required to do," he added.

A wide range of people and agencies including Mexico's foreign minister, Anthony Scaramucci, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the American Medical Association, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and even Geraldo Rivera have called the policy "inhumane" and asked for it to end.

WATCH: "Child internment camps... What country is that?!" Rep. Cummings shouts through tears to Congress. https://t.co/WV2xjD1rR0 pic.twitter.com/lhpaen4t8U — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 20, 2018

Vanity Fair reports this outraged reaction is exactly what dead-eyed White House troll Stephen Miller was hoping for: "Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border,” an outside White House adviser said. "He’s a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There’s always been a way he’s gone about this. He’s Waffen-SS." He's apparently not answering his phone today either.