Imam Adoum, 28, currently resides in Mayor Eric Adams’ Randall’s Island tent city, a large shelter touted by the current mayoral administration as a safe space for new arrivals — yet the migrant from Chad says he couldn’t feel any less secure.
Serving as both a home of necessity and a prison from which he yearns to escape, Adoum is but the latest casualty of a political spat between Republicans and Democrats.