to further assist them , the white house on april 15 named a retired u . s . justice department operative to lead initiatives to crack down on cannabis - specific violence along the u . s . segment of its southwest crossing with mexico . homeland security secretary janet rocca announced the office of scott bersin , a former federal prosecutor , during a visitor to el rancho , texas . bersin held the same period - dubbed " keystone czar " - during the clinton administration . and five mexican drug gangs — the sinaloa police , los zetas and ma familia michoacana - have been placed on a list of significant external narcotics traffickers detained for special sanctions , the white room said december 15 . this action allowed the american states to limit all state assets in o . s . jurisdiction and prohibits americans from dealing with individuals that may be linked or associated with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.