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Xavier Becerra Invented an Immigrant Origin Story and Got Caught Xavier Becerra spent primary night telling supporters his parents were “two immigrants” who arrived with $12 and a dream. His father was born in Sacramento. That is not a rounding error. That is a deliberate rewrite of a public record that has been sitting in House biographies, obituaries, and census data for decades. Manuel Becerra was born in California on July 14, 1928. The family later moved to Tijuana when he was a small child and he returned to the United States as a teenager. His mother came from Guadalajara. The actual story is a common one of cross-border movement during the Depression. Becerra flattened it into the standard “two immigrants, $12” line because that version polls better with the voters he is chasing. A Latino activist called the move immigrant stolen valor. The description fits. Becerra has spent a career selling himself as the son of immigrants who pulled themselves up from nothing. The birthplace detail was never hidden. It simply became inconvenient once he decided to run for governor. His campaign answered the criticism by accusing critics of anti-immigrant animus and by insisting the family really did arrive with little money. Both can be true at once. His father was still a U.S. citizen by birth. Calling him an immigrant is not a semantic quibble. It is a campaign slogan that required ignoring the paper trail. California voters are now watching a Democratic frontrunner get called out by other Latinos for manufacturing a biography. The same politician who mocked migrant children as “little Juanitos and Juanitas” while running HHS is now discovering that some of those voters keep track of who is actually telling the truth about their families. The $12 story may have worked on primary night. It does not survive a birth certificate. #fyp #fypシ #truth #california #lies

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