On Tuesday on the Jimmy Fallon show presidential candidate Jeb Bush
spoke about the first meeting between himself and his future foreign bride,
Columba. " It was love at first sight. I spoke little Spanish and she spoke
little English, but when you are in love you can overcome those barriers
pretty quick. There's another language that matters the most."
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American businessman and politician who
served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second
son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara
Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.
Bush met his wife while in Leon, Mexico helping to build homes. LeΓn is a
city in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. They married a few years later in
Austin, Texas, and now live in Coral Gables, Florida.
Is there a difference between Jeb Bush's Foreign Bride and so called Mail
Order Brides? Feminists and women rights groups have argued for years
that men who travel across boarders for love take advantage of women that
come from lower economic regions. In 2005 the Tahirih Justice Center and
Senator Cantwell pushed legislation regulating foreign brides, stating that
men take unfair advantage of women in foreign counties. The law (IMBRA )
requires marriage brokers to run background checks on all men that seek a
foreign bride. Bush's wife was underage at the time they met and came
from one of the poorest areas of central America. Did Jeb Bush then take
advantage of his future wife Columba? After all she came from poverty and
Jeb Bush came from a powerful, wealthy family.
Kenneth Agee, Marketing Director of A Foreign Affair, a company that
specializes in foreign bride match-making says, "Absolutely not! In our
society and most societies women are always looking to find a better way
of life. It is instinctual for females to find the best possible suitor for having a
family, just like it is instinctual for men to be attracted to certain physical
aspects of women. How would marrying into wealth make you a victim? The
notion that men have economic control of women, at best, would not last
long after marriage. It is equally invalid to say women have a control over
men because of their beauty. The truth is, a negative situation can happen
no matter where you meet and has more to do with character than
economics or location. Personally, my wife is from Russia, is very strong-
willed, and would never let herself become a victim. I find this to be true of
most foreign women. I'm sure Jeb Bush would agree. Contrary to the
opinion of Terra Justice Center, an INS study showed there were fewer
issues with cross-border marriages than domestic marriages. In fact they
have a much higher success rate"
And Jeb Bush is not the only candidate with a foreign-born wife. Candidate
Donald Trump is also currently married to Melania Trump, a former model
from Slovenia. Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, is from the Czech Republic.
Marrying foreign women is becoming a trend for the elite. FOX News CEO
Rupert Murdoch is married to Wendi Deng Murdoch from Jinan, China, with
a 38 year age difference.
Yet feminists continue to argue that men seek foreign brides only because
they lack the necessary social skills to find someone in the US. This is
clearly not the case, as these successful men do not lack socials skills.
Society has changed greatly over the years and love has no borders.
Looking worldwide for love is becoming the norm now. Each week
companies like A Foreign Affair take dozens of men to countries all over the
world where they attend social events, meeting hundreds of beautiful
women and models, who like themselves are serious about finding true love
and marriage. These men are from many varied walks of life: doctors,
CEOs, policemen, businessmen, you name it. You don't have to be a Bush
or Trump to see the advantage of looking abroad for real love.
With two candidates, Jed Bush and Donald Trump, both married to foreign
brides, we could see our first foreign-born First Lady in the White House.