I think there would be enormous political pushback by elements of both parties to expanding the guest worker program to unskilled labor.
You think they’re going to try to lobby to get blue collar people in? “Effectively open borders”, my ass.
That said, if the general case folk get their way, I assume that your special case will be included.
I do note that folks who want lots of low-skilled immigrants (the "who's going to pick grapes" folks) might not care that much about every instance of high-skilled immigrants.
I'm not arguing these are good or bad (H1Bs especially are abused) but they definitely happened and have a massive groundswell of support from one party.