Xavier Becerra keeps leaning on a tidy origin sob-story about his parents arriving in America with next to nothing, a line he’s repeated often enough on the campaign trail to become a centerpiece of his California gubernatorial pitch. The trouble is that the timeline doesn’t cooperate: his father was born in California, returned from Mexico as a teenager rather than a penniless newcomer in his twenties, and was already working before the family bought a home, according to a publicly available obituary that undercuts the version Becerra has been telling voters.