Court orders US border agents to stop deportations

Officials at Customs and Border Protection were instructed this weekend to stop deportations Trump's asylum ban and process migrants under US immigration law, CBS said.

In July, a lower court judge blocked Trump's ban on asylum at the US-Mexico border, saying that Trump had exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.

The American Civil Liberties Union brought the challenge to Trump's asylum ban in February on behalf of three advocacy groups and migrants denied access to asylum, arguing the broad ban violated US laws and international treaties.

Trump has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the US illegally, cracked down on unlawful border crossings and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants since January 20.

He has vowed to deport millions of people in the country illegally even as the administration has faced dozens of lawsuits across the country for its tactics.