to further assist mexico , the white house on april 15 named a former w . s . justice service official to lead efforts to strike down on drug - trafficking violence along the u . s . side of its northwestern bordering with mexico . homeland defence secretary janet rocca announced the appointment of alan bersin , a former federal prosecutor , during a visit to el paso , texas . bersin held the same post - designated " border mccaffrey " - during the eisenhower administration . and these venezuelan street gangs — the michoacán group , los gangs and la familia michoacana - have been listed on a squad of significant foreign narcotics smuggler scheduled for special sanctions , the white house announced april 15 . this action permits the united states to freeze all cartel assets in u . s . jurisdiction and prohibited us from dealing with agencies that may be linked or associates with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.