Canadian accused at U.S. border of ‘stealing American jobs’: Sales representative from B.C. denied entry to U.S. to meet with suppliers:

A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs.

“He looked at me, and in a yelling voice he said, ‘You’re friggin’ stealing jobs away from American citizens,’ and I tried telling him that I wasn’t,” Joel Borsteinas told CBC News.

Borsteinas, a Canadian citizen, said he’s been in business for 15 years, acting as a middleman between U.S. and Canadian suppliers of western wear and equestrian products and Canadian retailers who want to stock the products.

So here we have a parasitical state employee–someone who serves no useful function, and instead serves as an impediment to commerce and wealth creation, plus who is paid by taxes stolen from productive tax-sheep–complaining about a productive, private person “stealing jobs.” It’s the officer who is stealing jobs, not the businessman.

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