If neoliberal population expulsion was well underway when Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the speed of emptying picked up afterwards as many federal government (in)actions further propelled the exodus. These included the slow pace of federal deliberation regarding emergency funds and infrastructure, which made it difficult to access medical care, among other services: the unprecedented FEMA air and boat lifts that removed people without housing from Puerto Rico to the United States; and the Junta’s rejection of a $100 million emergency fund to support municipalities outside of the capital (Associated Press 2018). In this way, the process imposed specific spatial relations and temporal rhythms that made Puerto Rican “recovery” nearly impossible and made migration a necessity, while buying time for financial capitalist speculation and restructuring. As Nayda Dávila, a sixty-nine-year-old retired judicial employee, asserted when asked about why she migrated, “At my age, how much longer do I have left? . . . And this island won’t recover for much, much longer” (Healy and Ferré-Sadurní 2017).