One of Nevada's most prominent immigrant rights organizations plans to close later this summer, according to workers, amid allegations of verbal harassment of workers and organizational mismanagement. 

The Arriba Worker's Center was established in 2017 and has helped connect immigrant day laborers and other workers with support services, workplace rights training and legal protections. It has helped workers in neighboring states, including Utah and California.

The concerns center around Bliss Requa-Trautz, the organization's executive director. About a dozen workers gathered Wednesday to call for Requa-Trautz to be replaced and for the center to remain open with new leadership. Workers said that they were told by leadership that the center would be closing because of lack of funding — a claim they pushed back against — and called for greater transparency around management. 

According to the organization's most recent nonprofit filing with the IRS, it had just over $1 million in revenue and $1.2 million in expenses in 2025, and had 21 employees as of 2024.

Requa-Trautz confirmed that the organization plans to sunset its programs by 2027 and that its legal department will be shut down this month. Requa-Trautz said in an email that "out of respect for the privacy of current and former employees we will not comment publicly on personnel matters."

"The proposal to sunset the organization was not made lightly and was made after careful considerations of the current funding environment," Requa-Trautz wrote over email. 

Earlier this summer, Hilaria Pascual, the center's organizing manager, filed a complaint with the National Labor Review Board alleging mismanagement. Pascual, who started working for the organization at the start of this year, said that she had concerns about the management of the center shortly after she began working there.

After submitting a letter to the organization's board of directors in May, Pascual was told that an outside firm was hired to investigate the organization and she would be placed on administrative leave in the meantime, according to a Facebook post.

"We've faced lots of emotional, physical and psychological damage because of all that we've gone through," Pascual said during the rally this Wednesday. 

Rosario Ortiz, a former board member and client, echoed Pascual's concerns and said he was pushed out of his role as treasurer after he raised concerns about leadership. Ortiz said that many workers have left the organization in recent months because of rising concerns.

"We believe that Bliss wants to close the center to avoid responsibility," Ortiz told The Indy. "The center belongs to the people, but it can't be under the wrong hands."

One worker, granted anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that Requa-Trautz would call some workers "useless" and accused them of robbing from the center — something he called ironic given the organization helps fight back against wage theft. He said that workers were told this Saturday that the center was slated to close.

"We have a tough environment," the worker said. "Workers have suffered mistreatment and ostracization."

During the Biden administration, the center helped nearly 1,000 undocumented immigrants secure temporary protection from deportation as they fought back against workplace abuses, such as wage theft. 

Corrected at 10:07 p.m. on 07/15/2026 to reflect that Ortiz is a board member.