‘The number of
foreigners who cross the Channel and make England their home is increasing in
alarming proportion … This sea-girt island of ours also seems to be a happy “half-way
house” for the foreigner leaving his own country for other lands …’ (‘Immigrants
on the increase’, Daily Mail, 16
January 1901.)
‘Hygiene
standards among West Indians, Nigerians, and other coloured immigrants are so
low that new problems are being created for London’s health authorities, says a
health officer …’ (‘Immigrants “cause new health problems”’, Daily Mail, 7 September 1961.)
‘Private
security men working at London’s Heathrow Airport have uncovered an audacious
immigrant smuggling racket … The illegal travellers are hidden behind trays of
food and bins of catering debris and driven through the security gates to the “safety”
of the catering firm’s headquarters in Middlesex …’ (‘Smuggled Asians: Jet Set
Style’, Daily Mail, 13 August 1973.)
‘Today Western
Europe is haunted by the spectre of mass illegal immigration from the Third
World and Eastern Europe, where the aftermath of Marxism leaves a devastated
landscape …’ (‘Swamped … by the new underclass’, Daily Mail, 8 October 1991.)
‘The tide of
immigrants lapping at our shores has become a tidal wave. Every day, hundreds
arrive here from Eastern Europe, lured by the promise of a state-subsidised
lifestyle they can only dream of back home …’ ‘(Welcome to Gravy Train UK’, Daily Mail, 3 October 1998.)
I also discovered
that the Daily Mail first used the
phrase ‘bogus asylum seeker’ on 6 November 1996, in an article titled ‘Rapist’s refuge in
Britain’.