At the Maltz Museum in Beachwood, two Arizona artists are lending their artistic voices to people who've been silenced.

"El Sueño Americano: The American Dream" begins with Tom Kiefer’s photographs of the items carried by migrants who were apprehended while attempting to cross the U.S. border.

Kiefer was a janitor at the border patrol facility in Ajo, Arizona, for 11 years.

“I asked and was given permission to recover the food,” Kiefer said. “When I started doing that, I immediately encountered what was also being confiscated and discarded by the government - Bibles, rosaries, family photographs.”

His photography project documents the items he found in the trash while working at the station.

The Maltz Museum exhibition is the largest of Kiefer’s work. It’s also the first time Kiefer

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