article_snippet: David Cameron's promise to cut net migration to the tens of thousands was left in tatters last week when David Cameron's promise to cut net migration to the tens of thousands emerged the figure reached almost 300,000 in the year to September.
article_snippet: David Cameron's has admitted that David Cameron's failure to fulfil David Cameron's pledge has fuelled public concern about the numbers of people moving to the UK.
article_snippet: Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster told BBC One's Andrew Marr show that 'every party has to be tested on every party approach to immigration'. '
article_snippet: No government in the last three decades has solved the problem of immigration, so it is a really difficult issue.'
article_snippet: Asked if he was dismayed that immigration is such a big issue in the election, he replied: 'Well I am because I do think we need to go back and say what is we stance towards the world around we? '
article_snippet: Mr Cameron has claimed that cutting immigration to the levels seen in the 1980s would mean it would cease to be a major political issue .
article_snippet: The vast majority of immigrants come here and work hard and make a very positive contribution.
article_snippet: Despite the humiliation of the Prime Minister broken promise, the Prime Minister has vowed to stick to the Prime Minister target of cutting net migration below 100,000.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said last month: 'Back in the 1980s when we had an open economy, we had migration in the tens of thousands, and do you know what immigration ceased to be for many years a political issue on our country.'
article_snippet: Mr Cameron added: 'I believe that we would be a better, stronger country if we had net migration in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands.'
article_snippet: The shadow home secretary said The shadow home secretary party would focus on illegal immigration and short term student visas in an effort to bring net migration down.
article_snippet: Pressed on whether Labour would set a target for net migration, Labour's Yvette Cooper said: 'He (Mr Cameron) failed in that approach. '
article_snippet: He set a target for net migration, He said no ifs no buts He was going to meet it, and in fact the actual level is three times the target that He set. '
article_snippet: And also a net migration target puts all immigration in together, so it treats students, alongside people coming to work alongside people who are looking for work alongside people who might have come for family reasons, alongside refugees. '
article_snippet: It puts all of those different kinds of immigration together.
highlights_snippet: Most who come to UK 'work hard and make a very positive contribution'
  Cameron's pledge to cut migration in tatters after figure hit almost 300,000 .