Truth about Xavier Becerras Mexican background is finally revealed

Democratic governor Xavier Becerra is clearing the air about claims he’s lied about his immigration story.Becerra, who often touts his Mexican American family’s immigrant background on the campaign trail, caught heat in recent days for labeling his late father Manuel Guerrero Becerra an “immigrant” — despite the fact he was born in Sacramento.The apparent inconsistency was boosted by accounts on X and by rival Steve Hilton, who blasted the former Health and Human Services secretary as a “smug, arrogant, machine politician” and suggested he’s fudged his family history.“Unlike Xavier Becerra, I am an immigrant.

Unlike Xavier Becerra, my father was an immigrant.My stepfather too.

My whole family,” Hilton wrote.Hilton was born in London, becoming an American citizen in 2021.

His parents were born in Hungary.Becerra’s campaign dismissed the criticisms, sharing details of his father’s life that have been mentioned before on Becerra’s Wikipedia page and in news articles.

The elder Becerra, who died in 2020, was born in Sacramento in 1928 as the eldest of eight children, according to an online obituary.His family then moved back to Mexico when he was a child, living in Tijuana before he returned to California as a teen.“When he returned to California as a young teenager, living with relatives, he learned schools made little effort to teach an industrious ‘migrant’, but employers were intent on hiring him,” the obituary states of Becerra’s father, who later worked at a cannery and as a railroad construction worker.

Becerra’s mother Maria Teresa was born in Guadalajara.Becerra spokesperson Jonathan Underland said it’s not uncommon in immigrant families for individuals to temporarily move back to their parents’ home countries.

“Welcome to California Steve Hilton, when people born here are often raised in other countries and return, sometimes decades later, to build a new life for themselves in the best place on earth,” Underl...