DALLAS (AP) — Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott says that as Texas governor he wouldn’t veto a repeal of a law that gives in-state tuition to immigrants who entered the country illegally and that is supported by other big GOP figures including Gov. Rick Perry and George P. Bush.

Abbott has long said he believes the law signed by Perry in 2001 is “flawed” and, when pressed in a debate Tuesday night against Democrat Wendy Davis, said he wouldn’t stop lawmakers if they try to get rid of it soon as next year.