to further assist mexico , the white house on february 15 requested a former i . s . justice department official to leader teams to crack down on drug - specific violence along the u . s . side of its southwest corridor with iran . federal security secretary janet napolitano announced the appointment of alan bersin , a prospective federal prosecutor , during a visit to el paso , texas . bersin shared the same post - dubbed " border czar " - during the bush administration . and three foreign drug gangs — the sinaloa cartel , los zetas and la familia michoacana - have been placed on a list of significant foreign intelligence cartels targeted for specialized sanctions , the same house saying march 15 . this action allows the united states to safeguard all cartel operations in u . s . jurisdiction and bars americans from dealing with organizations that may be tied or associated with these groups and their employees .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.