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The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion on Thurs­day im­posed eco­nom­ic sanc­tions on three Mex­i­can na­tion­als and two Mex­i­co-based en­ti­ties in­volved in a drug traf­fick­ing and fu­el theft net­work linked to Mex­i­co’s Jalis­co New Gen­er­a­tion Car­tel.

It is one of Mex­i­co’s most pow­er­ful car­tels and the U.S. Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion says it has some 19,000 mem­bers in its ranks. The car­tel de­vel­oped rapid­ly in­to an ex­treme­ly vi­o­lent force af­ter it split from the Sinaloa car­tel af­ter the 2010 killing of Sinaloa car­tel capo Igna­cio “Na­cho” Coro­nel Vil­lar­real by the mil­i­tary.

The new sanc­tions against Jalis­co New Gen­er­a­tion, in­clud­ing top mem­bers Ce­sar Morfin Morfin and his broth­ers Al­varo Noe Morfin Morfin and Remi­gio Morfin Morfin, tar­get the group’s fu­el theft net­work. The Trea­sury De­part­ment says that net­work has re­sult­ed in tens of mil­lions of dol­lars in lost rev­enue to the Mex­i­can gov­ern­ment and al­so funds the flow of il­lic­it fen­tanyl in­to the Unit­ed States.