In other words, if Operation Bootstrap emptied the island in order to impose the rhythms of industrial capitalism, expand the island’s consumer market for US goods, and efficiently expel “surplus” labor, then PROMESA marks a transition to a new iteration of colonial-capitalism. In this scenario, what is desired is all that finance capital can devour, namely housing, public spaces, and indebted subjects consuming privatized services. Although population expulsion is not a stated objective of the governing board, the Junta’s policies knowingly fuel migration by imposing drastic cuts in essential human services such as education, health, and pensions. Once again at a vacuum domicilium juncture, the insula debitum expels people to facilitate forms of accumulation that do not require a large number of laborers, or even highly educated professionals. In the words of New York–based activist Rosa Clemente, “They want to extract the people. They want a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans” (Laura Flanders Show 2017).