.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to move in their first televised controversy in the US political election campaign.In 90 minutes of usually intense exchanges, the Republican politician and also Democratic presidential applicants traded insurance claims over vital vote-casting concerns featuring the economic situation, migration as well as abortion.BBC Verify has actually been actually examining them.Are migrants in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the canines, the people that was available in, they're consuming the felines, they're eating the pet dogs of people that reside there". VERDICT: There is no proof that this is actually taking place. Trump's opinion adhered to an unjustifiable claim - which was shared by his vice-presidential prospect JD Vance - that migrants coming from Haiti who have actually lately settled in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been consuming pets.Springfield area officials said to BBC Verify: "There have been actually no dependable documents or particular cases of pet dogs being actually hurt, injured or hurt or even mistreated by individuals within the immigrant neighborhood." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployment the worst due to the fact that 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company the worst joblessness due to the fact that the Great Depression". VERDICT: This is incorrect. In the end of Trump's condition of office in January 2021, the unemployment fee was 6.4%. But it has been actually much higher given that the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness came to a head at 10% within of deeper economic downturn. It has dropped gradually given that, in addition to a sharp optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in the absolute most recent records for August 2024, lack of employment stood at 4.2%. Are millions of folks entering the US from penitentiaries and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts have countless folks pouring in to our nation from penitentiaries as well as prisons, coming from mental institutions and ridiculous asylums". JUDGMENT: There is actually no documentation for these type of numbers.There have had to do with 10 thousand confrontations along with travelers crossing over the United States border because January 2021. There are actually no publicly accessible figures on the amount of of them have offered attend prison or even arise from mental establishments but there is actually some data on how many possess previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 million awareness of people crossing the border illegitimately so far this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and also where the Perimeter Patrol had the ability to examine against law enforcement data banks - about 14,700 folks possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's comparable to roughly 1% of all border ideas in this period and also does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to become re-elected, he will definitely authorize a national abortion restriction". JUDGMENT: This is misleading. Trump has refuted that he would certainly sign a national restriction if selected head of state. He has said that he will leave behind limitations on abortion get access to approximately private conditions to decide.Here, Harris additionally spoke about "his Venture 2025" - a reference to a record released due to the right-wing Culture Structure detailing a checklist of policy plans that they feel a Trump presidency ought to implement.It doesn't suggest a national restriction either, yet it carries out highly recommend restricting abortion access.Trump has distanced himself coming from the document, mentioning: "I recognize absolutely nothing about Project 2025. I possess no tip that lags it." Lots of previous Trump administration representatives are actually linked with Project 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "The most awful inflation our team've ever had" [was actually under Biden] DECISION: This is false. Under Head of state Biden, inflation reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when rates were actually increasing dramatically in numerous nations. Rising cost of living was actually last over 9% in 1981, yet it has been actually substantially more than that at numerous other aspects in United States history.Since its peak in mid-2022, rising cost of living has gone down to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. But costs are still rising and also it is actually a crucial issue for lots of voters.Would Trump tariffs set you back loved ones $4,000? CLAIM: Harris: "Economic experts have stated that that Trump sales tax obligation will actually result for center class loved ones in around $4,000 even more a year". DECISION: Harris refers to as Trump's proposed tax obligation on imports a purchases tax obligation. Some business analysts have approximated that these tariffs might set you back households this a lot. Others have lesser quotes. Trump urges the expense would be actually thought through overseas countries yet business analysts feel there would certainly be an economic cost for US foreign buyers and also buyers. The $4,000 amount stems from review - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Facility for American Progression - of Trump's guarantee to enhance tariffs on all imported items to 10-20% plus all products imported from China to 60%. They took the quantity the United States acquires in goods coming from abroad annually, figured out how much the brand new tax obligations on these products would certainly be and also divided this by the number of families in the US.It exercises at $4,600 per house, however when you consider "center revenue" households you obtain a figure of $3,900 a year.Other quotes are actually lesser. The Peterson Principle thinks the influence would certainly be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually crime down in Venezuela because it is actually delivering criminals to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Offense in Venezuela ... is way down since they have taken their criminals off the roads and provided to her [Harris] to embed our country". JUDGMENT: There is actually no evidence that Venezuela is doing this. Criminal offense degrees are actually down yet specialists state this is because of the state of the economic condition. The Venezuelan federal government does certainly not publish trusted criminal offense amounts, yet the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly document mentioned that intense fatalities that year - like murders - were down by a fourth matched up to 2022. The Observatory said to BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is lessened in Venezuela by a reduction in criminal activity options: financial institution break-ins fade away given that there is no money to take kidnappings are decreased due to the fact that there is actually no cash money to spend ransom money." It stated it had seen no proof that the Venezuelan federal government was actually delivering crooks to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.