to further assist mexico , the black chamber on april 15 identified a former s . s . state department office to leading teams to bring down on cannabis - associated gangs along the u . s . side of its southwest border with mexico . state security secretary janet giorgio confirmed the appointed of norman bersin , a former civilian prosecutor , during a travel to el centro , mexican . bersin obtained the same post - termed " border czar " - during the harrison administration . and one mexican crime gangs — the sinaloa cartel , the cartels and the cartel michoacana - have been put on a list of significant foreign narcotics traffickers . for special punishments , the white hall said may 15 . this action allows the united states to freeze all cartel assets in u . s . waters and bars americans from involvement with organizations that may be linked or affiliated with these groups and their operatives .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.