New Jersey's new budget will include a $2.1 million fund to help pay for attorneys for immigrants fighting deportation, The Philadelphia Daily News reports.
Advocates tell the newspaper that while $2.1 million will help, the full costs of covering every immigrant seeking to remain in the U.S. would be about $15 million.
New Jersey is one of 17 states suing President Donald Trump's administration in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The states, all of which are led by Democratic attorneys general, joined Washington, D.C., in filing the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle last week.