In 1947 Muñoz Marín’s party created a migration bureau, a rare case of a state agency dedicated to getting people to leave an area. The government distributed millions of pamphlets to help people adjust to life on the mainland. Muñoz Marín’s colleagues set up a three-month training program for women seeking to enter mainland domestic service. They practiced talking in English, washing dishes, polishing silver, answering the phone, and doing laundry.
