article_snippet.sent: The crackdown was ordered after the government failed to meet David Cameron's target of cutting net migration to the tens of thousands.
article_snippet.sent: Latest figures show that in the year to September, 298,000 more people arrived in the UK than left.
article_snippet.sent: Net long-term migration to the UK was estimated to be 298,000 in the year ending September 2014, a major rise on the 210,000 figure a year earlier .
highlights_snippet.sent: Net migration at 298,000, despite Cameron's pledge to cut to under 100,000 .