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It Could Happen Here

Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics, News

4.36.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

James talks to Theo Henderson, host of We The Unhoused, about the impact of protests in LA on the unhoused community, and how people at the intersection of the undocumented and the unhoused community are coping with federal, state, and local crackdowns.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:06.1

CallZone Media.

0:10.2

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

0:12.2

It's me, James, today.

0:14.0

And I'm very lucky to be joined by Theo Henderson, who is host of the excellent Wee the Unhoused Podcast.

0:19.7

How you doing today, Theo?

0:20.7

Thank you. You know,

0:21.5

hanging in there in this turbulent time, but doing okay. How are you today? Yeah, I'm good. Also,

0:27.0

also hanging in there. A lot of like being out late in the streets and then going up early to

0:32.3

podcasts, but you know, it's okay. It's good. I'm really happy to have you here today because I want to talk

0:39.2

about, like, the intersection of protesting, being unhoused and being undocumented. These are all things

0:46.2

that, like, sometimes people can look at as unique issues, right? Like, they're siloed off from one another,

0:51.1

and they're very much not, and they're very much connected by a few axes,

0:54.7

one of which is policing and state violence. To start off with, maybe you could explain, like,

1:01.6

in terms of the Los Angeles protests, we've seen the last week, the impact on unhoused people,

1:07.1

and specifically, like, because of where they are, right? The heightened impacts on unhoused people.

1:12.2

That's okay.

1:13.1

The reality of the situation is this, is that when there are protests,

1:17.9

not just the conversation that's current now,

1:20.7

unhouse people inadvertently get the runoff of the aggression,

1:24.9

the tear gas, the uncertainty of being able to find a safe space to sleep,

1:30.0

because when we do as protesters that are housed, protests, we encompass the entire area.

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