Why I Confronted Martin Selig, the Seattle Billionaire Who Rents to ICE

Wendy Elisheva Somerson asks billionaire and Jewish refugee Martin Selig how he could support ICE.by Wendy Elisheva Somerson
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) houses its regional offices in a downtown Seattle building owned by billionaire developer Martin Selig. In front of that building last Thursday, during a Jewish-led protest for migrant justice, I confronted Selig about why he rents to ICE. I asked him how could he—as a Jew and as an immigrant— choose to profit from