Its odd to me that more beekeepers are not in favour of developing locally adapted stock. Bringing in stock that is completely ill-adapted to the environment is not merely inviting, but creating and perpetuating the need to attend to health issues, and of course disruptive of the efforts of both wild bees and those keepers trying to help their stock stand on their own feet.
On a purely environmental basis: honeybees are a critical part of our natural ecology. Keeping them in perpetual ill-health by constantly injecting genes that disrupt their natural search for health is damaging to our own ecology.
This is not a matter of bias. It's a case of locating an informed view of the actions of importing. We need healthy bees. We need to recognise that imports are corrosive of that goal.