But other factors, including developments in the Middle East, may also be playing a role.
People gather at a hotel as Pakistan's under-16 cricket team are wrongly identified as migrants.
Once-rival criminal groups are being forced to work together because of a shortage of small boats, a BBC investigation has found.
The Home Office said 802 people were brought ashore at Dover over the course of three days.
The boat, carrying 82 people, ran aground on a beach in northern France, says local official.
On Saturday, 602 people arrived on nine boats, marking the second busiest day so far this year.
A three-year deal to pay for more French patrols to intercept smuggling gangs was due to expire at midnight.
