claim: President Donald Trump offered asylum to Aleksei Makeev, who was attacked in Mexico.
origin: Spanish-speaking readers might have been led to believe in May 2017 that President Donald Trump offered asylum to white supremacist Russian man living in CancÃºn who angered locals so much that a mob beat himÂ into a coma.Â On 22 May, the Mexican news web site SDPNoticias published an article in their satire section, PitorreoÂ â€” which translates roughly to â€œin jestâ€ â€” saying that Trump had announced atÂ a press conference both that construction had begun on his promised â€œborder wallâ€ and that he would grant asylumÂ to 42-year-old Aleksei Makeev, a man living in CancÃºn whom locals had dubbed â€œLord Nazi Rusoâ€ or â€œLord Nazi Russian.â€Â According to the story: < Donald reiterated that he thinks the majority of Latinos â€œare criminals,â€ saying that you only needed to analyze the recent case of Aleksey [sic] Makeev, the Russian living in CancÃºn, who was lynched by a group of Mexicans. Trump mentioned that â€œwe donâ€™t live in the Medieval eraâ€ when people would try to kill a person just because they committed a bad deed, saying that he thought it â€œterribleâ€ that Mexicans acted in such an instinctive matter without thinking about the consequences. > No such press conference occurred and construction has not begun on the border wall; the story is satire.Â Makeev, who was born near Moscow, reportedly made a habit of publishing videos online insulting local women and children, including one in which he can be seen making an offensive gesture at a woman behind her back as she holds her infant child. He recorded other videos with a picture of a Nazi swastika in the background, and some with a swastika drawn on the side of his head. Despite an order from the Mexican National Migration Institute that he leave on 19 January 2017, Makeev continued to live in CancÃºn, where he worked as a scuba diving instructor. Four months to the day he was supposed to leave, a mob attacked him at his apartment in CancÃºn and beatÂ himÂ into a coma, for which he was hospitalized. During the incident, Makeev reportedly stabbed an unidentified 19-year-old man, who died at the scene. On 23 May 2017, Quintana Roo State Attorney Miguel Ãngel Pech Cen revealed that a warrant had been issued for Makeevâ€™s arrest in connection with the younger manâ€™s death. At the time of the warrant, Makeev â€” who had regained consciousness â€” was listed in stable condition at a local hospital. Pech Cen also said that he is investigating not only the people responsible for the attack, but why local police did not do more to protect Makeev leading up to it. His announcement came two days after immigration officials said they would seek help from Russian authorities in deporting Makeev. It is unclear when Makeev moved to Mexico. But in 2013 he was ordered to seek psychiatric treatment in Russia after the countryâ€™s Ministry of Internal Affairs discovered online footage he posted of himself shoving a child and an elderly woman.