BND - Wolf among the refugees

🧩 BND Motif Index · M1767

Wolf among the refugees

A refugee is said to have been no victim at all but one of the persecutors, an officer of the regime he claimed to flee, who won asylum by passing as a harmless man, and the hidden past is said to void what he and his family won by it.

🎭 Archetypes 🗂️ Immigrant motifs

8claims filed under it
1left show it came up on
11right 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.

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

🪜 rests on 🧩 The impostor

the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 11 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.

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 7

claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one

2026-11-02 “Ilhan Omar's father was a war criminal, which could jeopardize her citizenship.” 3
2026-11-01 “Ilhan Omar's father is said to have been a colonel in a murderous army, not the educator he claimed to be when seeking asylum.” 1
2026-11-01 “Ilhan Omar's father is said to have worked for a leader accused of killing tens of thousands, and should never have had refugee status.” 1
2026-10-30 “Ilhan Omar's father is said to have served a Somali dictator's army and misrepresented himself as a refugee.” 1
2026-10-26 “Ilhan Omar is accused of committing immigration fraud involving her father and brother.” 9
2026-10-24 “Ilhan Omar's father may have been involved in military suppression and responsible for deaths in Somalia.” 2
2026-10-20 “Ilhan Omar is the daughter of a warlord and should never have been granted refugee status.” 1

Told on both sides 1

claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike

2026-10-24 “Ilhan Omar's father may have misrepresented his status as a warlord or her age when entering the country.” 9

M1767 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works

Wolf among the refugees

🪜 Its family

🎙️ Who it came up with

🧶 Its claims

Told on the left 0

Told on the right 7

Told on both sides 1

🪜 Its family

🎙️ Who it came up with

🧶 Its claims

🫏 Told on the left 0

🐘 Told on the right 7

⚖️ Told on both sides 1

Told on the left 0

Told on the right 7

Told on both sides 1