Family of Marine Veteran Killed in Mexico Breaks Biden-Harris Administrator’s Silence

The family of a Marine veteran killed in Mexico told Fox News Digital they have not heard from President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris nearly two weeks after their son’s murder.

Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year Navy veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizonain water reclamation projects, was shot and killed along the Caborca-Altar highway in northern Mexico on October 19.

Quets, whose father served 20 years in the US Army and another 20 years in federal law enforcement, was born in Panama City, Panama and grew up in Latin America. For the past few years, the family had lived close to each other in Arizona, and as an outdoorsman who loved the water, Quets would drive with friends to Rocky Point for a trip to the beach.

He was killed about 30 miles south of the US-Mexico border.

“I’m apolitical,” Quets’ father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told Fox News Digital. “But the facts are this: my American son, who was doing nothing but going to the beach an hour from home, was executed by cowardly thugs. cases, that would have been a great bet.”

“That was it wrong navy. This was the wrong family,” he said. “This story will not go away. It won’t go away next week after the US election. This story will push and push and push.”

“No matter what happens next week, I’m not going to let this die,” the father said. “My goal for Nick is for Nick to be the beginning of the end for the cartels in Mexico.”

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The Quets family said it was Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., who helped facilitate a meeting with Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, while he was campaigning in Tucson. Days after their son’s murder, the Quets family then met with former President Donald Trump before his rally in Tempe, and both executives asked permission before mentioning Quets’ name.

Vance said on stage: “I promise you the cavalry will come, and when Donald Trump is president, we will kick the cartels.

Instead, the Quets said they tried to get a meeting with Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz when he was campaigning in Phoenix, but staffers told them the event was at capacity and turned them away. Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to headline an event in Phoenix on Thursday, which is Halloween, when Trump is also expected to be back in the state.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and the Harris campaign multiple times seeking comment on Quets’ slaying, but has not heard back.

“In the greatest hour when my family needed an entity, a strong government and a strong and powerful enterprise, in which the government of the United States is, the only people of elected quality or office who seek the authority to lead that institution came back to me. and they expressed concern and made commitments to me (about) how we’re going to make it better … it was Senator Vance and President Trump, it’s a 100 percent fact,” Quets said.

“I believe in Donald Trump as a man of his word — not the TV personality, not the billionaire — but a person I’ve looked at face to face and talked to,” Quets told Fox News Digital. “America got a little weaker. My family was destroyed, but America got a little weaker. Mexico got a little weaker. Those cartels got a little stronger. And the only way to reverse that is to go after these people.”

Quets’ brother-in-law, retired Air Force Capt. Philip Sweet, told Fox News Digital that he currently works in federal law enforcement and is confident that President Biden would have been informed of Quets’ murder.

“President Biden, he was in Arizona on Friday. I didn’t hear anything. There was no information. There has been no word yet,” Sweet told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “Not because we choose one side or the other… we are an apolitical family. Before that, you wouldn’t have any of us talking about our opinions. But what I can say is that our goal was to raise awareness of this.”

“Within, you know, less than 100 hours after my brother-in-law was killed, I had elected officials, Senator Vance, and I had President Trump take — every one of them — take 15 minutes of their extremely busy schedule. loaded to meet with us,” Sweet said. “It’s obvious to me and my family that we have 100 percent confidence in President Trump and Senator Vance … We know who cares about us, and that’s obvious to us. I’m the president Trump and Senator Vance. I’m shocked on many levels that nobody in our current administration, none of our US senators, our governor, nobody has reached out.”

Quets said he met Vance just four days after his son was killed.

“He says, ‘Talk to me as JD Vance, Marine, and I want to know what it is, what happened,'” Quets recalled. “‘And I want to know what I can do to help you.'”

“And I know how busy those men are in a two-week political battle of their lives,” Quets continued. “So I said everything … Vance looked at me and got emotional about it and said, ‘Tell me what I can do to help you.’

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“And the next morning, we were called to the Trump campaign rally,” he recalled. “My daughter-in-law and my wife carried a picture of my son with them.”

“Trump looked at the picture before he said anything,” Quets said. “She started crying…she had tears in her eyes. And he looks at everybody, he looks at my wife, he looks at my daughter-in-law, he says, “Tell me what happened.” And at that point, you could say he was a man of action, and I’ve been around a lot of people who are, and he was upset and he said, “Tell me what I can do to help you.”

Officials in Sonora, Mexico, said Nicholas Quets failed to stop at an illegal checkpoint manned by cartel members, and a group of gunmen followed his truck and opened fire in a “direct attack.”

While reports indicate Mexican authorities have made arrests, Quets’ father said he is relying on the FBI to lead his investigation and wants his son’s killers extradited to the U.S. — as just the beginning. The family said they later learned Nicholas was driving on a similar route to where two Arizona women were shot of alleged cartel members weeks earlier, crimes they say were not well reported in the media.

“I’m asking you to help us,” said Nicholas Quets’ mother, Patricia Marie Quets. “Speak for Nicholas and all the nameless and faceless victims. This happens every day. We have the power to make the change. Help us.”

The Quets family said they heard from the U.S. consulate in Mexico, which helped repatriate Quets’ remains, as well as the State Department, mid-level FBI officials and hundreds of members of the military community.

“And as my father-in-law said, this is not just a border state issue. This is a national issue. This is a national security issue,” Sweet said. “You know, I spent 11 years in the Air Force. He has over 40 years of government service. I’m in federal law enforcement. I deal with this all the time. And, you know, you never think these things were going to happen to you, but you think, wow, you know, the government is going to support me.”

“I understand they are busy. But right now, I can tell you that the actions of President Trump and Senator Vance speak louder than any meaningless words or offers that the current administration can give us,” Sweet said. “One side cares about you, and that’s President Trump and Senator Vance. They care about the American people. They care about my family. They care about your family. That’s something I think says a lot.”

A career specialist in Latin American security, Warren Quets said he believes the US immigration problem is related to a lack of security in the Americas, particularly Mexico, which is driving people north in search of economic and physical security. In addition to extraditing and prosecuting his son’s killers in the U.S., he said he wants the United States to cooperate bilaterally or unilaterally with Mexico and other countries.

He referenced his experience with Plan Colombia, which dismantled Pablo Escobar’s control of the drug trade, and advocated for the United States to develop a similar strategy with Mexico.

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“What I need is to use Nick’s death as part of my healing to get the word out and for people to understand. And for Nick’s death to be the best day in cartel history. Every day after that becomes a little bit. worse for them,” he said. “I’m talking about dismantling the cartels and bringing the drug lords to the United States.”