WASHINGTON: A pro-immigrant American politician who has introduced itself to voters with words “I’m just your average Mexican-America average, Italy-Italy” will be a new US ambassador in India.
Eric Garcetti, a Democratic Party from California and Mayor of Los Angeles, was nominated on Thursday by the President of Biden to serve in New Delhi.
He will take assignments as the 26th US Ambassador to India after confirming the Senate which is expected to be a formality, successfully Kenneth Juster, who returned to Washington after serving almost throughout Trump’s term.
Garcetti, 50, is considered close to President of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
As the second largest mayor of the city in America, which is also home to Hollywood, he urges Biden to run for president in 2016, and served as Chair of the Presidential Campaign of 2020.
He is also one of four members of the Vice President’s search committee who chose Kamala Harris as a Biden couple who ran in 2020.
Garcetti’s nomination was seen as a recognition of his loyalty – and also tickets out of Los Angeles, which was released from his reputation as a problem solving, hit by a crisis in front of the White House that discussed his notes.
“As mayor, Garcetti oversees the Bersestibukan container port in the western hemisphere, the largest city utility in the country, and one of the busiest airports in the world.
He led La attempt to restore the summer Olympics to American land for the first time.
Decade.
He is currently roaming La Metro, the second busiest transit agent in the country, which builds or expands 15 new transit lines, and shifts to an all-electric fleet, “the White House said in the announcement of nomination.
But the critics were reduced on their record on social media, with many tweets hiding “the city that slipped” after an eight-year spotty as mayor.
The details also called him “Mayor of Yoga pants” because of his interest in yoga.
While some commentators worried about the thin resume in India, the announcement of the White House referred to 12 years as an intelligence officer in the US Navy reserve component, where he was in charge of the commander, the US Pacific Fleet and Defense Intelligence Agency, retirement.
In 2017 as Lieutenant.
Also note that he is the chairman of the current C40 city – the world’s largest 97 network in the world that took “brave climate action” and said he had led the involvement and expansion of the organization in India and the C40 global response to the Covid pandemic through the best practice and resource sharing.
Garcetti has a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and also studied international relations as a Bachelor of Rhodes at Oxford University in England.
He briefly taught international diplomacy and relations at Occidental College (where Obama had studied) and the University of Southern California.
India-Watchers welcomed the nomination, especially given its proximity to the White House, parliamentarians, and democratic establishments.
“The choice inspired by @Potus to name @ICgarCetti for USBSDOR US to India.
Successfully see the Mayor Garcetti put Hindi’s bit well and advancing the US-Indian partnership,” Tweeted Nisha Desai-Biswal, former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.
Garcetti is a supporter of immigrants who are not incorporated, speaking during the Democratic Convention 2016 (when he talked about the inheritance “average Mexican-America, Italy-Italy”) about how reported, faced with war and prosecution, past the ocean and the river to come democracy “Impossible, and this magical.” “My grandfather, Salvador, when a baby was brought to the border on his mother’s arm during the Mexican Revolution.
My other grandfather, Harry is the son of Russian Jews flying in – they and their wives, Juanita and Julia, a meatpacker and public school teacher , make their lives here, and after Pearl Harbor one of my grandfaths answered his national call and uniform produced for GI.
Another placing the uniform, struggling for the only country he knew, crossing the ocean knowing whether he would go home, and get it His citizenship as a result, “he said.
“When we make fun of immigrants and people with disabilities, when we make fun of (original America) Indians and women, we mock our own history.
It’s in a nation where the speaker code-navajo, and women on the assembly line, and family Japanese-Americans whose families are in interface camps win the war with the president who cannot walk, “he said in stirring speeches who first took him to the center of national attention.