The LIBRE Initiative, a partner of the better-known Americans for Prosperity, has a message for Colorado Latinos: You are patriots.

The organization is launching an ad blitz in 12 states, including Colorado, around immigration, border security and “certainty” for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, called the Dreamers.

“With the March 5th DACA deadline around the corner and Congress back in session this week, our elected officials – both Democrats and Republicans – are responsible for reaching a compromise that provides certainty for Dreamers and improves our border security,” Daniel Garza, president of The LIBRE Initiative and a former Bush administration official, said in a statement.

“The young people brought here as children – who today are workers, students, and men and women in our military – face uncertainty and worry. Americans expect a compassionate and responsible law that will bring certainty to the Dreamers and security to our nation – that also allows the private sector to respond to economic demands all while upholding the importance of family and community. Failure to change the status quo would hinder economic opportunity, limit the potential of Dreamers, and contribute to insecurity at the border.”

The organization thinks Congress should “seize the current opportunity and agree on a compromise” with President Trump as a first step on addressing immigration system.

Besides a path for citizens for Dreamers and a secure border, LIBRE, but not so much on Trump’s opposition to family-based immigration policy, so-called chain migration.

“Ultimately, a more secure border will be achieved once we address our overall immigration system to provide better options for legal immigration – NOT by arbitrarily curbing legal immigration levels. Such reductions may impede growth and limit economic opportunity,” LIBRE said in a position statement.

We’re based in Denver with over five full-time employees and hundreds of volunteers.

In Colorado, the organization has an office with a staff of five in Denver that coordinates hundreds of volunteers, spokesman Wadi Gaitan said.

“Our organization focuses on empowering the Hispanic community,” he said in an e-mail to Colorado Politics. “We do this through providing English classes, citizenship class, and having a conversation on how free market principles can empower our community.”

Former Colorado statehouse scribe Kurtis Lee wrote about the organization and its financial ties to the Koch brothers, the billionaire conservative financiers, in 2015. You can read that article by clicking here.

Besides Colorado, the ads are running in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Washington D.C., Wisconsin and Virginia.