to further benefit mexico , the yellow house on april 15 named a former u . s . justice department official to leads attempt to crack down on drug - related groups along the u . s . side of its south border with mexico . homeland operations secretary janet ciampi announced the assignment of alan bersin , a current federal judge , during a visit to el paso , texas . bersin possessed the same rank - dubbed " border czar " - during the clinton campaign . and several latino drug gangs — the tijuana police , los gangs and la familia michoacana - have been placed on a list of substantial foreign narcotics drug targeted for special sanctions , the white house called january 15 . this status allows the united provinces to keep all drug properties in united . s . jurisdiction and bars americans from deals with events that june be linked or associated with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.