.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their 1st televised controversy in the US vote-casting campaign.In 90 moments of typically intense exchanges, the Republican politician as well as Democratic governmental applicants traded cases over essential election concerns including the economic situation, immigration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been taking a look at them.Are migrants in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [migrants] consuming the pet dogs, the people that can be found in, they are actually consuming the cats, they're eating the dogs of people that reside there". VERDICT: There is no documentation that this is actually occurring. Trump's comment complied with a baseless insurance claim - which was actually shared by his vice-presidential prospect JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti who have just recently worked out in Springfield, Ohio, have been consuming pets.Springfield metropolitan area representatives told BBC Verify: "There have been actually no dependable records or even certain cases of household pets being actually injured, hurt or misused through people within the immigrant area." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployment awful given that 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful unemployment considering that the Great Hard times". DECISION: This is untrue. In the end of Trump's term of workplace in January 2021, the lack of employment rate was actually 6.4%. Yet it has been actually greater given that the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness topped at 10% in a period of deeper economical downturn. It has actually fallen progressively due to the fact that, in addition to a stinging optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in the best current information for August 2024, lack of employment stood up at 4.2%. Are numerous individuals entering the US from penitentiaries as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts have countless people putting into our nation coming from prisons as well as jails, from psychological establishments and also ridiculous asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no proof for these kind of numbers.There have concerned 10 million rendezvous with travelers transition the US boundary considering that January 2021. There are actually no publicly accessible plan the number of of all of them have offered attend jail or even come from mental companies yet there is some records on the number of possess previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 million awareness of people moving across the border unlawfully thus far this financial year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Perimeter Patrol was able to check against law enforcement data banks - regarding 14,700 folks possessed previous illegal convictions.That's comparable to approximately 1% of all boundary understandings in this particular time frame and doesn't total up to the "thousands" Trump is claiming.Will Trump sign a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he will certainly authorize a nationwide abortion ban". JUDGMENT: This is actually deceptive. Trump has actually refuted that he will sign a nationwide restriction if elected head of state. He possesses mentioned that he would leave behind restrictions on abortion accessibility as much as personal conditions to decide.Here, Harris also referred to "his Project 2025" - a referral to a record published due to the conservative Heritage Groundwork detailing a listing of policy propositions that they strongly believe a Trump presidency need to implement.It does not suggest a nationwide restriction either, but it performs highly recommend confining abortion access.Trump has outdoed themself coming from the file, claiming: "I know nothing at all concerning Venture 2025. I possess no suggestion who lags it." Several former Trump management officials are actually related to Job 2025. Was rising cost of living under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "The worst inflation our company have actually ever possessed" [was actually under Biden] DECISION: This is actually false. Under Head of state Biden, rising cost of living came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when costs were increasing sharply in lots of countries. Rising cost of living was actually last over 9% in 1981, however it has been dramatically greater than that at several other points in United States history.Since its peak in mid-2022, inflation has fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However costs are actually still climbing as well as it is actually a crucial concern for lots of voters.Would Trump tolls cost loved ones $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Business analysts have stated that that Trump purchases tax will in fact result for mid class loved ones in about $4,000 even more a year". JUDGMENT: Harris refers to as Trump's suggested income tax on bring ins a purchases income tax. Some economic experts have actually predicted that these tariffs might set you back families this a lot. Others have reduced quotes. Trump insists the expense would be actually thought by foreign nations but economists strongly believe there would certainly be actually a financial expense for United States international merchants and also consumers. The $4,000 number arises from review - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Centre for American Development - of Trump's vow to enhance tolls on all imported items to 10-20% plus all products imported coming from China to 60%. They took the quantity the United States purchases in goods coming from abroad each year, determined just how much the brand new taxes on these products would certainly be actually as well as split this due to the lot of houses in the US.It exercises at $4,600 per family, but when you take a look at "center revenue" households you receive a body of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are lower. The Peterson Institute presumes the impact would be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal activity down in Venezuela considering that it is actually sending bad guys to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Offense in Venezuela ... is way down since they have taken their criminals off the streets as well as provided to her [Harris] to put into our nation". VERDICT: There is actually no documentation that Venezuela is doing this. Criminal activity levels are actually down but specialists say this is because of the state of the economic climate. The Venezuelan government carries out certainly not post reliable criminal activity bodies, yet the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 annual report claimed that violent fatalities that year - like homicides - were actually down by a fourth contrasted to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Crime is lowered in Venezuela by a decline in criminal activity opportunities: banking company break-ins go away given that there is actually no funds to steal kidnappings are minimized considering that there is actually no cash to spend ransom money." It said it had actually seen no proof that the Venezuelan government was actually delivering offenders to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.