to further advise mexico , the white houses on april 15 named a former u . s . war department executive to lead efforts to crack down on drug - related activities along the i . s . side of its southwest border with mexico . homeland security secretary janet napolitano announcing the appointment of alan bersin , a past federal attorney , during a visit to el rio , texas . bersin held the same document - dubbed " border czar " - during the clinton administration . and one american crime firms — the sinaloa cartel , los zetas and la tengo michoacana - have been placed on a list of significant local narcotics traffickers targeted for special sanctions , the white senate said december 15 . this action requires the united states to freeze all cartel holdings in mexico . s . territorial and bars americans from associated with organization that may be linked or involvement with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.