Programmers Guild[1] is an attorney-founded group[2] intended to protect legal hi-tech immigrants to the United States and help them in obtaining Green cards.
It has been relaunched under the umbrella organization United Information WorkersThe Guild has been described as "a nonprofit group with a volunteer staff.
[10][11] The Programmers Guild was an active participant in various legislative hearings,[12] and companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Oracle supported them.
Dice.com, a career website, wrote in 2013 that most of the Guild's members are over age 40, and that "predominately" those involved in H-1B situations are entry level.
[17] Michelle Malkin's Sold Out (book), co-authored with the Guild's founder, uses the term crapweasel in the plural on the cover.