🧩 BND Motif Index · M1565
They're not sending their best
Those crossing an open border are said to be the criminals of other countries, murderers, rapists and people let out of foreign jails, so an open border is told as crime let in at the door.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Immigrant motifs🗂️ Crime and punishment
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 6right 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Angel moms
🔗 goes with: 🧩 They're pouring in!
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 6 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"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: “11,888 murders, people from other jails.” “individuals that we know are dangerous that the Biden administration let into our country” “it's not your next door neighbor that's going to come over and steal you blind” “Joe Biden's open border policies led to children being murdered in the state of Texas.” “many, many criminals and murderers.” “We got crime, we got mayhem” “when Joe Biden illegally opened that border, these gangbanging murderers killed children.”
🧶 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
- 2026-11-06 “Joe Biden's open border policies led to children being murdered in Texas.” 2
- 2026-11-05 “Biden's open border let in 20 million people and brought crime and mayhem, and his administration is said to have known it would.” 1
- 2026-11-05 “The Biden administration allowed 2,268 terrorists into the country who have since been arrested.” 2
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-03 “Criminals and murderers from all over the world were pouring into the country through an open border.” 2
M1565 · first seen 2026-11-03 · last 2026-11-06 · what this is · how the index works