to further enhance congress , the white chamber on april 15 named a current s . s . federal department employee to lead initiatives to shut down on drug - associated crimes within the u . s . side of its southwest border with mexico . homeland security secretary sonia napolitano announced the removal of alan bersin , a former federal senator , during a visit to el monte , texas . bersin holds the same post - dubbed " border czar " - during the clinton administration . and three other drug gangs — the sinaloa cartel , los zetas and buena sinaloa michoacana - have been identified on a list of significant foreign narcotics traffickers scheduled for economic punishment , the united room said april 15 . this action encourages the united states to seize all mexican assets in c . s . jurisdiction and ban people from dealing with groups that may be linked or linked with these organisations and their workers .
La Familia Michoacana are drug traffickers.