This study analyzes the discursive representation of foreign workers in Croatian and German online media. Using a corpus of 223 articles collected from ideologically diverse news portals, the research employs NooJ syntactic grammars to automatically annotate mentions of foreign workers according to four semantic roles: victim, perpetrator, user, and contributor. Results reveal contrasting national patterns: Croatian media predominantly frame foreign workers as victims, emphasizing vulnerability and marginalization, whereas German media highlight the contributor role, focusing on economic integration and labor market participation. A source-level analysis indicates that sensationalist outlets favor victim narratives, while conservative media emphasize perpetrator portrayals and downplay contributions. The findings demonstrate that media framing of foreign workers is shaped by national migration histories and editorial ideologies. This study contributes a replicable semantic role framework for cross-cultural discourse analysis and lays the groundwork for future sentiment and emotional mapping using the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon.