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Article snippet: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE (R-Iowa) is expected to hold a hearing in the coming weeks focused on immigration visas, an area of key interest to the Trump administration. Grassley informed Senate Majority Whip MORE (R-Texas) on Thursday that he will hold a Judiciary hearing Sept. 13 on Trump's “Buy American, Hire American” executive order in regard to several visa programs, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Representatives from Cornyn and Grassley's offices did not immediately return The Hill's request for comment. It's unclear exactly which visas will be highlighted during the hearing, but sources said that immigration and border security subcommittee staff expect the hearing to cover H-1B visas for high skilled workers, L visas for employees of international companies, H-2B visas for seasonal workers who don’t work in agriculture, J visas for academics and F visas for students. The sources say it will likely be a full committee hearing. The fate of H-1B visas in particular have been closely watched by the technology industry, which sees the program as vital to securing talent for in-demand engineering and computer science jobs. Major technology CEOs like Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have pushed to not scale the program back by reducing the number of possible visas. Many in the industry argue that the number should be expanded. Trump and other critics of the visa have argued that it allows technology companie... Link to the full article to read more