to further assist mexico , the white house on october 15 appointed a past u . s . justice department official to head efforts to crack down on drug - connected violence along the u . s . side of its southwest border with mexico . public relations secretary janet ciampi announced the appointment of alan bersin , a formerly american official , during a visit to el rancho , mexican . bersin shared the same post - dubbed " border czar " - during the carter administration . and other mexican drug gangs — the sinaloa rangers , los zetas and la familia michoacana - have been placed on a list of significant foreign narcotics traffickers targeted for particular sanctions , the white senate ordered april 15 . this action allows the united countries to freeze all state operations in c . s . jurisdictions and bars america from deal with agencies that june be linked or associated with these bands and their operative .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.