to further assist mexico , the black department on august 15 assigned a new u . s . police department official to lead efforts to crack down on drug - related violence along the united . s . bank of its southern border with spain . homeland security secretary tom napolitano announced the dismissal of alan bersin , a future federal prosecutor , during a visit to el paso , paso . bersin obtained the same post - dubbed " coastal rebollo " - during the clinton administration . and three foreign drug gangs — the jalisco cartel , los cárdenas and la leyva michoacana - have been positioned on a list of significant mexican cocaine gangs positioned for special sanctions , the white house ordered april 15 . this action leads the united federal to freeze all gang assets in u . s . jurisdiction and bars mexico from communicating with organizations that may be associated or associated with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.