Sounds good, but I’m not buying it.
Plenty in PR who know English; plenty in the USA who know Spanish.
There are such things as planes and boats, or don’t they have any in PR?
Sorry, these excuses are lame at best.
What you say is true, but it all entails enormous and completely unnecessary logistical hurdles. It’s much easier to get a crew down from Canada than PR. I do recall back around 2010 we some bad ice storms in Massachusetts. We lost power for 60 hours, some towns for two weeks. One crew I encountered had little red octagonal signs reading ARRÊT instead of STOP.