HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform that takes effect next week, an island doctor told The Associated Press on Monday. Hospital directors learned of the new policy, which takes effect Jan. 14, in a Saturday meeting with Health Minister Roberto Morales and word of the change was relayed in hospital staff meetings, according to the doctor, who attended one of the subsequent gatherings.

ATLANTA (AP) — More than 10,000 illegal immigrants living in Georgia have requested temporary protection from deportation under a plan established by President Barack Obama. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/TRzwvZ) reported Monday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has granted over 53,000 requests for protection from deportation since the government began accepting applications in August. Georgia ranks ninth nationally in the number of people who have applied.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said it was time to address immigration policy and urged President Barack Obama to take the lead in coming up with a plan that would look at both improved enforcement of immigration law and the future of the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has approved more 4,500 young illegal immigrants for a program to let them stay in the United States and get a work permit. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday about 180,000 people have applied for the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program announced this summer. As of Wednesday, 4,591 applications had been approved. Those people will also get permission to work.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend. Most Californians her age can drive. But Esquivel, a college freshman, was brought illegally to the United States from Mexico when she was 7. And California has denied driving privileges to immigrants lacking legal status since 1993.

MILFORD, Mass. (AP) — Milford is about to become the first town in New England to partner with federal immigration officials to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. The Massachusetts city and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are scheduled to sign the agreement at Monday's Board of Selectmen meeting.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two men have been convicted of using a shuttle business to smuggle illegal immigrants into southern Arizona. A federal jury in Tucson also issued arrest warrants for 57-year-old Eusebio Arce-Padilla, of Rio Rico, and 62-year-old Miguel Torres-Organiz, of Tucson. They both absconded during trial that ended Monday. They're scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 1. Prosecutors say Arce-Padilla was the head of a Nogales, Ariz.-based smuggling organization that moved thousands of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border for more than five years.

Today at a community conversation at Miami-Dade College, the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and the U.S. Department of Education released the report Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community. The President will be delivering a commencement address at Miami-Dade College Friday evening.