Immigration Reform news 2017: Democrats push Obama to grant unprecedented pardon for immigrants

In a couple of days, United States President-elect Donald Trump will take over the White House from President Barack Obama causing a rise of uneasy immigrants in the country who have been the target of many planned reforms that the former has presented during his campaign period. But with some last-minute actions from the current administration, the outgoing POTUS may have a couple of options to ensure the protection of the future of countless immigrants brought to the country as children.

Trump did not sugar coat his stern policies with regard to immigrants in the United States. He was clear about making sure that his government will serve those naturally born in the country first and foremost even if that means that he needs to send those who have lived in the States for decades but not born there back to their native homelands. This possibility is something that the Democrat congressmen are trying to prevent from happening by pushing Obama to grant pardon to those who are coming forward for identification in exchange for having immunity from deportation.

Should the President implement the proposed move, it will be the first time in the United States that this ploy will be enacted. Unfortunately, up until now, The White House reiterates that this option is simply not viable.

"Ultimately, it wouldn't protect a single soul from deportation, so it's not an answer here," Obama's top immigration adviser, Cecilia Munoz, told the Center for Migration Studies which was picked up by ABC News. "I know people are hoping for an answer, but by its very nature, the use of executive authority in this way is subject to the will of the executive — soon to be Trump."

As of now, it is not yet clear how Obama's successor will handle the latter's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as he has more recently softened up on his stance about it. "We're going to work something out that's going to make people happy and proud," Trump told Time magazine just last month. "They got brought here at a very young age, they've worked here, they've gone to school here. Some were good students. Some have wonderful jobs," he said.

He may propose a program that allows young immigrants to come to the country and be granted work permits and excluded from deportation as long as they undergo background checks every two years.

With talks about the major revisions in immigration policy coming in the next four years, 741,000 immigrants are still on the lookout on how their lives will be affected once the administration changes face this coming Jan. 20.