Family of Marine veteran murdered in Mexico backs Trump, Vance after silence from Biden-Harris admin

The household of a Marine seasoned murdered successful Mexico told Fox News Digital that they person not heard from President Biden oregon Vice President Kamala Harris astir 2 weeks aft their son's killing. 

Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine seasoned who worked for Pima County, Arizona, connected h2o reclamation projects, was changeable and killed on the Caborca-Altar Highway successful bluish Mexico connected Oct. 19. 

Quets, whose begetter served 20 years successful the U.S. Army and different 20 years successful national instrumentality enforcement, was calved successful Panama City, Panama, and grew up successful Latin America. For the past respective years, the household lived adjacent to 1 different successful Arizona, and, arsenic an avid outdoorsman who loved the water, Quets was driving with friends down to Rocky Point for a formation trip. 

He was killed astir 30 miles southbound of the U.S.-Mexico border. 

"I americium apolitical," Quets' father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told Fox News Digital. "But the facts of the substance are these: my American son, doing thing different than going to the formation an hr from his location was executed by cowardly thugs. The quality media decided to suppress it for 4 days, and successful the overwhelming bulk of cases, that would person been a large bet." 

"This was the incorrect Marine. This was the incorrect family," helium said. "This communicative volition not spell away. It won't spell distant adjacent week aft the U.S. elections. This communicative is going to propulsion and propulsion and push." 

"No substance what happens adjacent week, I americium not letting this die," the begetter said. "My extremity for Nick is that Nick is the opening of the extremity for the cartels successful Mexico." 

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Nicholas Douglas Quets, left, came from a beardown subject background. (Quets Family )

The Quets household said it was Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., who helped facilitate a gathering with Republican vice statesmanlike campaigner Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, portion helium campaigned successful Tucson. Days aft their son's killing, the Quets household past met with erstwhile President Donald Trump up of his rally successful Tempe, and some moving mates asked support earlier mentioning Quets' name. 

Vance said connected stage, "I committedness you the cavalry is coming, and erstwhile Donald Trump is president we're going to footwear the cartels a--es."

By contrast, the Quets household said they attempted to get a gathering with the Democratic vice statesmanlike candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, erstwhile helium was campaigning successful Phoenix, but staffers told them the lawsuit was astatine capableness and turned them away. Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to header an lawsuit successful Phoenix connected Thursday, which is Halloween, erstwhile Trump is besides expected to beryllium backmost successful the state. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House and to the Harris run respective times asking for remark connected Quets' sidesplitting but did not perceive back. 

"In my family's top hr of request for an entity, for a beardown authorities and a strong, beardown enterprise, that the United States authorities is, the lone radical successful an elected capableness oregon a presumption seeking authorization to tally that instauration came backmost to maine and expressed interest and made commitments to maine [on] however we'll marque it amended … were Senator Vance and President Trump. That's 100% fact," Quets said. 

"I bash judge successful Donald Trump arsenic a antheral of his connection – not the TV character, not the billionaire – but a idiosyncratic who I looked astatine look to look and talked with," Quets told Fox News Digital. "America got a small spot weaker. My household was destroyed, but America got a small spot weaker. Mexico got a small spot weaker. Those cartels got a small spot stronger. And the lone mode to reverse that is to spell aft these people." 

Quets' brother-in-law, retired Air Force Capt. Philip Sweet, told Fox News Digital that helium presently works successful national instrumentality enforcement and is assured President Biden would person been briefed astir Quets' killing. 

Nicholas Douglas Quets' household met erstwhile President Donald Trump successful Tempe, Arizona. (Quets Family )

"President Biden, helium was successful Arizona connected Friday. We heard nothing. There was nary outreach. There's inactive been nary outreach," Sweet told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday. "It's not due to the fact that we're picking 1 broadside oregon the different … we're an apolitical family. Before this, you wouldn't person had either of america speech astir our opinions. But what I tin accidental is that our extremity was to rise consciousness for this." 

"Within, you know, little than 100 hours from my brother-in-law's murder, we had elected officials, Senator Vance, and we had President Trump instrumentality – each of them – instrumentality 15 minutes retired of their highly engaged schedules to conscionable with us," Sweet said. "It's evident to maine and my household we person 100% assurance successful President Trump and Senator Vance.… We cognize who cares astir us, and that's evident to us. It's President Trump and Senator Vance. I'm shocked connected aggregate levels that cipher from our existent administration, neither of our U.S. senators, our governor, cipher has reached out." 

Quets said helium met Vance conscionable 4 days aft his lad was killed. 

"He says, 'You're talking to maine arsenic JD Vance, Marine, and I privation to cognize what it is, what happened,'" Quets recalled. "'And I privation to cognize what I tin bash to assistance you.'"

"And I cognize however engaged those men are successful a two-week governmental combat of their lives," Quets continued. "So I said everything … Vance looked astatine me, and helium got affectional astir it, and helium said, ‘Tell maine what I tin bash to help.'"

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"And the adjacent morning, we got called by the Trump run rally," helium recalled. "My daughter-in-law and my woman carried a representation of my lad with them." 

"Trump looked astatine the representation earlier helium said anything," Quets said. "He started to outcry … had tears successful his eyes. And helium looks astatine everybody, looks astatine my wife, looks astatine my daughter-in-law, says, ‘Tell maine what happened.' And astatine that point, you could archer helium was a antheral of action. And I person been astir a batch of radical that are. And helium was angry, and helium said, ’Tell maine what I tin bash to help.'" 

Officials successful Sonora, Mexico, reportedly said that Nicholas Quets had not stopped astatine an illicit checkpoint tally by cartel members, and a radical of equipped men followed his pick-up motortruck and opened occurrence successful a "direct attack." 

While reports bespeak Mexican authorities made arrests, Quets' begetter said helium is relying connected the FBI to behaviour its probe and wants his son's killers extradited to the U.S. – arsenic conscionable the start. The household said they aboriginal learned Nicholas was driving on a akin way wherever two Arizona women were changeable dead by alleged cartel members weeks earlier, killings they accidental were not good reported successful the media.

"I inquire you to assistance us," Nicholas Quets' mother, Patricia Marie Quets, said. "Speak for Nicholas and each of the nameless, faceless victims. This is happening each day. We person the powerfulness to marque the change. Help us." 

The Quets household said they person heard from the U.S. consulate successful Mexico, which helped repatriate Quets' remains, arsenic good arsenic the State Department, mid-level FBI officials and hundreds of members of the subject community.

"And arsenic my father-in-law said, this is not conscionable a borderline authorities issue. This is simply a nationalist issue. This is simply a nationalist information issue," Sweet said. "You know, I spent 11 years successful the Air Force. He has implicit 40 years of authorities service. I'm successful national instrumentality enforcement. I woody with this each the time. And, you know, you ne'er deliberation that this worldly was going to hap to you, but you think, wow, you know, the government's going to person my back." 

"I recognize they're busy. But astatine this point, I tin archer you that President Trump and Senator Vance's actions talk louder than immoderate senseless words oregon offerings that the existent medication tin connection us," Sweet said. "One broadside cares astir you, and that's President Trump and Senator Vance. They attraction astir the American people. They attraction astir my family. They attraction astir your family. That's thing that I deliberation speaks volumes." 

A vocation Latin American information specialist, Warren Quets said helium views the U.S. migration occupation arsenic tied to a deficiency of information successful the Americas, peculiarly successful Mexico, which drives radical northbound successful pursuit of economical and carnal security. In summation to his son's killers being extradited and prosecuted successful the U.S., helium said helium wants the United States to enactment bilaterally oregon unilaterally with Mexico and different countries.

He referenced his acquisition successful Plan Columbia, which dismantled Pablo Escobar's power of the cause trade, and advocated for the United States to make a akin strategy with Mexico. 

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"What I request is to usage Nick's decease arsenic portion of my healing to person the connection get retired and that radical recognize it. And for Nick's decease to beryllium the champion time successful the past of the cartels. Every time aft that gets a small spot worse for them," helium said. "I'm talking astir dismantling cartels and bringing the cause kingpins into the United States."