Hertz Apologizes After U.S. Citizen From Puerto Rico Is Denied Car Rental

Humberto Marchand was asked for his passport, though he produced a Puerto Rican driver’s license showing that he is from the U.S. territory. The rental company employee in Kenner, La., called the police. A Hertz counter at Kennedy International Airport in Queens. The car rental chain denied a Puerto Rican customer, automatically born a U.S. citizen, a car he had reserved at a New Orleans airport after he presented a driver’s license issued on the island instead of a passport.Credit…Andrew Kelly/Reuters Hertz, the rental car chain, has apologized after an employee refused to give a Puerto Rican man his […]

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