A video showing what looks to be a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer yelling at a Canadian tourist to “never come to the U.S. again” is being investigated by the CBP.

The 39-second video, uploaded to social media sites, was taken from inside a vehicle travelling south on highway I90 in New York State, a few kilometres from the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge that connects Queenston, Ont., with Lewiston, N.Y.

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    4 days ago

    Help, my country is full of belligerent idiots in power

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    Why are people being so mean to this CBP officer giving a public service announcement to tourists?

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    Even when I used to think more highly of my own country, I still thought most CBP guys are dickheads. Still do.

    They are given way too much power over non-citizens and somehow that goes to their heads, making them think they are better than fellow humans.

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      Please don’t refer to the color orange when referencing our idiot-in-chief - it’s insulting to the intelligence of our single brain-celled orange feline friends.

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          I think the preferred description is “fucking satan”.

          Personally I feel it lacks panache.

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            The Satanic Temple people would disagree. Don’t put this one on them.

            Personally, I prefer the French Canadian term osti de crosseur de poules mortes. I’m not sure it translates well, but I’ll give it a try:

            Fucking dead chichen masturbator

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            Satan is way smarter and more consolation than Trump has ever been.

            “Shit for brains pedo convict” is more accurate.

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      Same same. I went from living in the US 3 months of every year for various jobs to now where I won’t even fly over. I love our american friends, but their leadership (and lack of pushback against the same) have made it a non-starter for even visiting.

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    I’ve never met a CBP official that was polite, efficient or professional. It looks like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find these people.

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        Oh, my, it’s far worse than that.

        Border guards (in almost any nation) are those the police rejected and the prisons rejected.

        They’re not good enough to be PRISON GUARDS.

        Let that sink in.

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          Border guards (in almost any nation) are those the police rejected and the prisons rejected.

          … imagine a country where there are so many prison guards that this statement has any meaning.

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            You don’t have to imagine it. Just look to the USA. IIRC it is the country that has the largest proportion of its population behind bars.

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      They’ve been scraping the bottom of the Cracker Barrel for a while now to find their “qualified and professional” brown shirts.

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      in my experience, the grand majority are either assholes or just terrible to deal with. but there have been a handful of genuinely nice people, and another handful of neutral

      very much overshadowed by the assholes though

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    Yelling at people from the next car over doesnt seem very safe, and also seems like harassment. This moron needs to be fired from his job in the US and also banned from ever entering canadian soil.

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    The pathetic little power trippers. That one has reddit mod written all over his dull eyed face.