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Just days ago, a young U.S. Marine Corps veteran named Nicholas Quetz
from Arizona
was driving through
Mexico
very routinely.
Who would think this could happen
for a beach weekend with his
great friends? Yet everybody loved him. He had a lot of friends.
When he was viciously gunned down on the highway and murdered
by members of a Mexican
cartel.
And we're joined today
by Nick's wife, Carrie,
his father, Douglas, his mother, Patricia, his sister, Alexis,
and his brother-in-law,
Phil, and their beautiful people.
And if they'd like to come up, I'd love to have them just to honor their beautiful boy.
I'd love to have them. Come on up. So good.
That's great.
This is a great family, a perfect family,
and what happened to them should happen to nobody.
Hey, so unscripted, I really wasn't planning on being here.
2 weeks ago I was a completely apolitical actor. Anybody outside my own home wouldn't have known who I would have voted for.
Today the situation changed for me last for 2 weeks ago Friday.
My son was murdered by cowards, shot in the back on the way to the beach in Mexico.
The reason I bring that up and some people question why was he in Mexico, he was in Mexico going to pursue his life, enjoy his life. We grew up as a military family. We had been around the water. He loved it. We don't have Arizona Beach, so we call
Rocky Point Arizona's Beach. A lot of people go there, hundreds of thousands a year, I think, transit there, plenty of Americans' own property down there. So that happened. We got the call from the State Department,
very professional,
that night.
No news in the United States to speak of.
Sunday,
still no news.
Monday, still no news.
Other than the very most local level with no public
publication,
tried to get in contact with elected leaders,
heard nothing.
Tuesday, I reached out to my local representative.
He put me in contact with
Senator Vance. Senator Vance coincidentally was coming to Tucson for a speech that day.
I can't imagine how busy
Senator Vance and President Trump are running their campaign.
Senator Vance, I asked for 2 minutes to talk to him. And,
you know, I've met in my line of work, and I'm actually still a current federal employee. That's 1 of the reasons I've stayed apolitical.
I'm a 20-year military retiree, so I've dedicated my entire life to this country.
My son, who was murdered as a four-year military veteran of the United States Marine Corps,
he
did
–
he
did – he worked on vertical assault from the Osprey, so he'd fast-rope out of helicopters.
My daughter is actually a drilling army reservist,
and my son-in-law recently medically retired
due to issues sustained on active duty.
So our family is a military family generations and generations of service.
I bring
these things up as an apolitical actor and somebody who has struggled, the kind of Americans many are, who probably sit around their table and say, who are we going to vote for, go back and forth, decide what we think is important.
And
we struggle on that, and we actually pray on it. And many people ask me, how can I stand up here today, 13 days after my son was killed, and talk in front of groups? And it is through the grace of God, and I do believe in God and a higher being.
I do believe my son Nicholas has given me the power to be here, has given my wife the power to be here, has given my daughter,
Kareemah, who is Nick's wife,
and my son-in-law, Philip. And Philip has done such a great job, so now I have 1 living son, and that is Phil, because 1 was stolen by the cartel.
So when I met with Senator Vance, and because I am a political, and have met many
leaders from
up to the level of National Security Council plenty of times working different issues for this government.
I asked him a question and I said, sir, before we talk, I need to know if I'm speaking to the candidate,
the senator,
or the Marine.
And he said, I'm JD, I need you to tell me what I can do for you and you tell me what you can do for me. And he meant it as a way of helping him
to help me.
So JD Vance
was awesome. I asked for 90 seconds. He gave me 15 minutes.
At the end,
the very next morning, The very next morning,
and after having tried to reach my elected officials for 5 days,
President Trump's office called me.
President Trump, in the fight of his life, offered to meet with us.
President Trump gave me 15 minutes of his time to talk about what we could do.
I asked him for some things and he helped.
I asked him A,
for US involvement and and we know he's candidate Trump right now and there isn't a seated president, I asked for U.S. Involvement in the investigation with the Mexicans.
I asked for extradition of the killers
after I found out under the current U.S. Code
Not all can be extradited only if they're tied to RICO activities. In this case, they probably are tied to RICO activities. They are probably coming back. But I'll defer all questions on his investigation to the FBI.
And I asked for a working policy in Mexico.
In my career, I worked in – 1 of the things I worked on was Plan Colombia, very similar situation security as to what we have in Mexico today. It was supported by Senator
Biden. That's out in public record. You can look at it. We have no working policy with Mexico right now.
Count the numbers
of illegal immigrants, whether they're private, whether they're dangerous
or not dangerous,
and you'll see a number of about 25
million crossing back and forth.
And then When somebody says, why was Nick in Mexico, my son was an hour from our house when he was executed by cowards.
That's how close it is. But it is a national security challenge, not a local border state challenge. We have these type of things with
Trans-Diagua
and MS-13,
anybody else you want to name, plus unnamed criminal organizations.
The cartels,
they operate with impunity in
Mexico. They've infiltrated every level of their government.
The local police are helpless because they're not properly equipped. State police a little bit better, but not, and then the federal. But we need to work with the Mexicans on this to go forward.
So what I'm leaving you with and I'll give this back to President Trump to whom you came to listen not me is this
For most of us in this room, and honestly I would not have been in this room because it wouldn't have been political 2 weeks ago, you know who you're going to vote for, but for the sound bite and the people looking at this,
after 12 days I received a phone call from Senator Mark Kelly. That was the 12th day.
And he was gracious and he offered his condolences and I told him, sir I appreciate that because I'm a respectful person and I'll work with anybody.
But what I want is sponsorship of a couple things. 1 is change the US code
so that if people are committed crime against US persons, especially Murr, they are brought back here to face our justice.
Number 2 is
legislation that is enacted that takes us someplace close to a planned Mexico
that will institute not only military capability but also institution building. And if we break out the numbers of what it costs, we can do that for much less than we spend on illegal immigrants.
And we can make both sides of the border secure.
People
are coming here,
some come from economic and we talk about that, but many of those people are actually fleeing due to the insecurity in their own country. If we can help them, we can help ourselves.
Senator Kelly, and as I said, so this is bipartisan, but we need a leader who can enact it. And the leader is standing right next to me because he's promised to enact it.
Bipartisan.
And I will tell you, President Trump, former President Trump, however you want to name him, and I had some really good conversations there.
We had conversations between ourselves, 2 men looking at each other. The man had a tear in his eye when he saw the picture of my son,
and the person that those that are on the – that are not – have not committed and don't know, he's a decent man.
He tried to help us, and he promised to help us.
He also made a promise to me that it will be between the 2 of us,
but if he's elected, I do believe he'll keep it.
Sir, I can't thank
you enough for what you've done for my family in terms of calling attention to this. It was unreported in the media. Go back and check for anybody who looks. And I will tell
you,
and importantly,
and importantly,
like I said, Senator Wall, our Governor Walls was in Arizona last Saturday.
He had a convention. We tried to go. We asked to go. I've got electronic proof of it so we can show pictures. They've already been released to the media. We're told it was full. It was in a high school auditorium,
and we weren't allowed to speak with him. So when you wonder about where America really is and what the stories are, you don't have to wonder anymore.
The man next to me and his vice presidential nominee, a current seated senator, both met with me within 36 hours of asking, and both took up the cause.
And for any troll that is out there and says, your son shouldn't have been in Mexico,
if it's safe for 25 million people to come here, how can it not be safe for my son to go an hour south of the border?
And for the trolls that say we're politicizing my son's death, I will tell you to go to the root of the word.
It is the policy that contributed to my son being killed. It is the policy that's contributing to the death of other Americans, just like the video you saw of that young lady. It is the policy that's contributing to fentanyl coming into the United States. Those are political
failures,
and we need to end them.
Thank you for your time.
I'm asking you,
help us get
justice
for
Nicholas.
Thank you.
That's incredible.
And frankly, to do that, to be able to
do that, literally just a few days after this horrible event happened, is pretty amazing, I'll tell you. We'll take care of it. We're going to take care of it. We're going to get that guy.
We're going to get him.
We're going to get them. They know who he is. Can you believe it? They know who he is. Nothing's done.
Mexico is going to give them to us. Mexico is going to give them to us. Mexico is going to give them to us. They have to.
They have to. It's going to be real easy.