Vijay Padmanabhan is a law

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at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at

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, who was formerly a senior lawyer for the

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. Padmanabhan's duties at the State Department included negotiating for other countries to seek homes for former

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s. After leaving government service Padmanabhan called the

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s "an abject failure".

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