HAZLETON, Pa. — Nicolas Diaz looked out at the empty sidewalks along Wyoming Street, one of this former coal region’s main commercial corridors, and took it as proof that the president he supported is delivering on promises to keep his city safe.

Diaz, a 78-year-old retiree originally from the Dominican Republic, voted for President Donald Trump last year. He blamed Democrats for open borders that he thinks led to crime, including in the city he has called home for a decade, where he said an influx of undocumented people took jobs that should have gone to local residents and U.S. citizens.

“They’re not coming anymore,” Diaz said from beneath the cover of a storefront awning on a recent drizzly afternoon. “The ones that are here are in hiding.”

As Diaz defended Trump’s policies as making

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