to further assist them , the white house on april 15 named a former u . s . government department official to lead efforts to slow down on drug - trafficking violence along the e . s . side of its southwest border with mexico . transportation security secretary brian napolitano announced the resignation of alan bersin , a former federal officer , during a delegation to el paso , texas . bersin held the same period - nickname " border czar " - during the clinton administration . and three international drug gangs — the sinaloa cartel , los zetas and la familia michoacana - have been placed on a listing of moderate foreign food traffickers slated for special sanctions , the white office said april 15 . this activity allow the confederate states to freeze all cartel activities in u . s . jurisdiction and bars americans from deals with organizations that can be linked or associate with these organizations and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.