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

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

Quets, whose father served 20 years in the U.S. Army and another 20 years in federal law enforcement, was born in Panama City, Panama, and grew up in Latin America. For the past several years, the family lived close to one another in Arizona, and, as an avid outdoorsman who loved the water, Quets was driving with friends down to Rocky Point for a beach trip. 

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

"I am apolitical," Quets' father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told Fox News Digital. "But the facts of the matter are these: my American son, doing nothing other than going to the beach an hour from his home was executed by cowardly thugs. The news media decided to suppress it for four days, and in the overwhelming majority of cases, that would have been a great bet." 

"No matter what happens next week, I am not letting this die," the father said. "My goal for Nick is that Nick is the beginning of the end for the cartels in Mexico." 

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

Vance said on stage, "I promise you the cavalry is coming, and when Donald Trump is president we're going to kick the cartels a--es."

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and to the Harris campaign several times asking for comment on Quets' killing but did not hear back. 

"I do believe in Donald Trump as a man of his word - not the TV character, not the billionaire - but a person who I looked at face to face and talked with," Quets told Fox News Digital. "America got a little bit weaker. My family was destroyed, but America got a little bit weaker. Mexico got a little bit weaker. Those cartels got a little bit 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 President Biden would have been briefed about Quets' killing. 

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

"He says, 'You're talking 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 the next morning, we got called by the Trump campaign rally," he recalled. "My daughter-in-law and my wife carried a picture of my son with them." 

Officials in Sonora, Mexico, reportedly said that Nicholas Quets had not stopped at an illicit checkpoint run by cartel members, and a group of armed men followed his pick-up truck and opened fire in a "direct attack." 

"I ask you to help us," Nicholas Quets' mother, Patricia Marie Quets, said. "Speak for Nicholas and all of the nameless, faceless victims. This is happening every day. We have the power to make the change. Help us." 

The Quets family said they have 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 that this stuff was going to happen to you, but you think, wow, you know, the government's going to have my back." 

"I understand they're busy. But at this point, I can tell you that President Trump and Senator Vance's actions speak louder than any senseless words or offerings that the current administration can offer 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 that I think speaks volumes." 

A career Latin American security specialist, Warren Quets said he views the U.S. immigration problem as tied to a lack of security in the Americas, particularly in Mexico, which drives people north in pursuit of economic and physical security. In addition to his son's killers being extradited and prosecuted in the U.S., he said he wants the United States to work bilaterally or unilaterally with Mexico and other countries.

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

"What I need is to use Nick's death as part of my healing to have the word get out and that people understand it. And for Nick's death to be the best day in the history of the cartels. Every day after that gets a little bit worse for them," he said. "I'm talking about dismantling cartels and bringing the drug kingpins into the United States."