Donald Trump, who was named Time's person of the year on Wednesday, appeared to soften his stance during an interview with the magazine on young undocumented immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
Trump had vowed on the campaign trail to reverse all of President Obama's immigration executive orders, which included deportation protections and work permits for roughly 740,000 "dreamers" who are currently in the country.
But the president-elect voiced a gentler position in the Time interview, opening the door to "working something out" with the young immigrants.
"They got brought here at a very young age, they've worked here, they've gone to school here," Trump said. "Some were good students. Some have wonderful jobs. And they're in never-never land because they don't know what's going to happen."
Still, Trump did not entirely back off of his campaign promise to upend Obama's executive actions, and his selection of immigration hardliner Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) as attorney general could lead to a crackdown on those in the U.S. illegally.
Meanwhile, Trump maintained his claim that Russia was not behind the series of cyber attacks against Democratic political systems during the presidential campaign despite the U.S. intelligence community finding Moscow responsible.
"I don't believe [Russia] interfered" in the U.S. elections, Trump told Time, adding that conclusions finding otherwise were likely politically motivated.
"It could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey," Trump said. "I believe that it could have been Russia and it could have been any one of many other people. Sources or even individuals."