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. León 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.