It's not just programmers, it's the left in general. The left, in the US, is pro-immigration. The left is supposed to be champion of the poor, and one thing is

It's not just programmers, it's the left in general. The left, in the US, is pro-immigration. The left is supposed to be champion of the poor, and one thing is damn sure : restricting employer's access to cheap labor (meaning restricting immigration + high import taxes + restrictions on global workforces) certainly help that a lot. Although I'm starting to see the same in Europe. The "old" leftist parties are vehemently anti-immigration, for exactly this reason : it helps their constituency. The "young" left is really almost libertarian, which I would normally classify under extreme right. But I think the problem America's two-party political system: sometimes it feels like it's extreme-right versus lunatic-right.