LOL I bet when the Trump administration took on new member of staff this was the first thing said to them during induction!
From Statista.com..... some UK migrant numbers for different months, over the years...
Oh absolutely there has been a considerably increase in migrants arriving by small boats across the English channel from France and it absolutely is a problem.
The UK media like to portray the situation as something unique to the UK, that it almost alone in being flooded with migrants when the reality is the UK is quite hard for migrants to reach due to geographical factors with several other European states actually taking in more refugees. There is also the perception the UK is a soft touch that provides benefits and aid to migrants that no where else does and this attracts migrants looking for an easy life when again the assistance it provides isn't as good as some other European states. There is also the perception that most migrants are economic migrants and not genuine refugees fleeing war or persecution when the the majority of migrants are just that.
Then you have the fact that there is virtually no safe and legal routes for genuine asylum seeking. Something even the UK government have admitted to that and said if someone does arrive by boat then they can claim asylum that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nhl87CLU70
So you get all these crazy plans, like the Rwanda scheme that was unworkable and stupidly expensive and people suggesting the Royal Navy force migrant boats back to France (and violate French territorial waters in the process) or even that the British army is deployed to the French coast (LOL can you imagine what the French think of that idea).
The French have said they are willing to allow the UK to set up an Asylum processing center in France so migrants asylum claims can be processed before reaching the UK at least somewhat reducing the need for the migrants to risk the dangerous channel crossing.
However the situation shows up another hallow promise of Brexit, taking back control of the UK's borders. The UK has left the Dublin III regulations that allowed them to return migrants back to the country they first arrived in before reaching the UK.