Mexican cartels' war on Americans: Fentanyl crisis should be atop Biden's agenda at summit

The systematic murder of Americans by fentanyl is a quiet war being waged by Mexican cartels. This should be agenda item one for Biden at North American Leaders Summit.

Carrie Filipetti is a former deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State and the executive director of the Vandenberg Coalition. 

This is no mere drug epidemic. This is a national security crisis – a silent war being waged on America’s most vulnerable populations, using poison as the weapon of choice. 

Cartels, in collaboration with China, are purposefully targeting vulnerable Americans, lacing additional drugs with fentanyl to increase rates of addiction and hiding fentanyl in counterfeit pain, anxiety and ADHD medications.