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Yaacob Daud played a key role in managing boatloads of displaced people who arrived on the east coast in the 1970s.

“The United States ... it comes under attack," Rubio said. "That treaty obligation would have to be enforced by the armed forces of the United States, particularly the U.S. Navy.