Student: CVS workers rejected Puerto Rico ID, asked for visa
November 3, 2019
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — CVS apologized and said they were investigating after a Purdue University engineering student was denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by employees who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver's license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status.
José Guzmán Payano, a junior studying engineering, said a clerk and shift supervisor at a CVS store in West Lafayette refused to sell him medicine, citing corporate policy that requires customers to show valid ID issued by the U.S., Canada or Mexico.
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