National Guard Sent To Stop Migrant Caravan, A Talk With Filmmaker Ferenc Török, And Weekend Passport: the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

By Worldview Staff
This April 2, 2017, file photo made with a drone, shows the U.S. Mexico border fence as it cuts through the two downtowns of Nogales.
This April 2, 2017, file photo made with a drone, shows the U.S. Mexico border fence as it cuts through the two downtowns of Nogales. Brian Skoloff / AP Photo
This April 2, 2017, file photo made with a drone, shows the U.S. Mexico border fence as it cuts through the two downtowns of Nogales.
This April 2, 2017, file photo made with a drone, shows the U.S. Mexico border fence as it cuts through the two downtowns of Nogales. Brian Skoloff / AP Photo

National Guard Sent To Stop Migrant Caravan, A Talk With Filmmaker Ferenc Török, And Weekend Passport: the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

By Worldview Staff
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

On today’s show:

  • President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday aiming to send thousands of National Guard members to the border to meet the caravan of more than 1,000 asylum seekers. Worldview discusses the logistics of deploying the National Guard to the border and the plight of Honduran asylum-seekers with Dana Frank, a history professor with University of California at Santa Cruz.
  • Milos Stehlik talks with filmmaker Ferenc Török about his new film 1945. 
  • Weekend Passport: The U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale is co-commissioned by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Worldview speaks with a curator at this year’s Biennale, Ann Lui, and a representative commissioner at this year’s Biennale, Jonathan D. Solomon.