🧩 BND Motif Index · M1420
They took our jobs
Foreigners are said to take the places that should go to the native-born, jobs, school seats, scholarships and roster spots, so every newcomer's gain is counted as a citizen's loss.
- 7claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 8right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (4 left-leaning, 2 center, 8 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- ⚖️ BBC Global News Podcast 3 claims
- 🐘 Morning Wire 3 claims
- 🐘 The Jesse Kelly Show 3 claims
- 🫏 The Kyle Kulinski Show 2 claims
- 🐘 The Matt Walsh Show 2 claims
- 🐘 Bannon's War Room 1 claim
- 🐘 PBD Podcast (podcast) 1 claim
- 🫏 Pod Save America 1 claim
- 🫏 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1 claim
- 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Remnant 1 claim
- 🐘 The Tucker Carlson Show 1 claim
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
➕ 2 more shows
🎙️ 2 more shows
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “giving away American jobs” “For every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker” “hired a similar number from overseas” “let's fire some Americans” “So many college sports rosters have been taken from Americans and given to foreign students… taking up the roster spots, leaving Americans with not really too much stake” “socialism is when foreigners come into your country and take the jobs.” “The party that wants to flood the nation with millions of foreigners is not going to make the job market any less competitive” “these jobs should be going to American workers” “they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants” “you want to replace American workers with foreign workers”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-04 “Democrats want to flood the nation with foreigners and will not make the job or housing markets better.” 1
- 2026-11-02 “Microsoft is abusing the visa system to replace American workers with foreign employees.” 5
- 2026-11-01 “International students are taking up roster spots and leaving Americans with little stake in college sports.” 2
Told on both sides 2
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-03 “Socialism in America means replacing American workers with foreign workers and letting boys play in girls' sports.” 5
- 2026-11-02 “Companies use H-1B visas to hire people who do not possess better education or skill sets than Americans.” 6
Told in the center 2
claims heard only on center or crossover shows
- 2026-11-02 “Microsoft replaces laid-off workers with foreign indentured servants.” 2
- 2026-11-02 “Vance says Microsoft laid off about 6,000 U.S. workers and hired a similar number from overseas.” 1
M1420 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-04 · what this is · how the index works