Columba Garnica Gallo was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico,[3] the daughter of José María Garnica Rodríguez (1925–2013), a migrant worker and waiter from Arperos, Guanajuato, and Josefina Gallo Esquivel (born 1920), from León, who were married in February 1949. Columba's father abandoned the family in 1956 when she was 3 years old[4] and her parents divorced in 1963.[5] Following the departure of her father, Columba and her mother remained in León.[5][6]
Garnica attended Instituto Antonia Mayllen, a private Catholic school in the historic center of León.[5]
She met Jeb Bush in 1970 in León when she was 16 years old and he was 17.[3] Bush was teaching English as a second language and assisting in the building of a school in the small nearby village of Ibarrilla[7] as part of a class at Andover called Man and Society.[3][4]
Garnica married Bush on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas[8][9][10] at the chapel in the Catholic student center on the campus of the University of Texas.[4][6] At the time of the wedding, she did not speak English and a part of the wedding ceremony was conducted in Spanish.[3]
... became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1979.[5]
Colombia Bush “... became a citizen in 1979.”
1979 is the year George HW Bush ran in the Republican primary against Ronald Reagan. I wonder if that was the motivation to become a citizen. Being married to Jeb an American citizen was not enough of a reason as 5 years had passed since their wedding in 1974.