.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised controversy in the US vote-casting campaign.In 90 mins of frequently intense swaps, the Republican as well as Democratic presidential candidates traded cases over essential election issues including the economic climate, immigration and abortion.BBC Verify has been actually examining them.Are travelers in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [immigrants] consuming the canines, the people that was available in, they're eating the kitties, they are actually consuming the household pets of folks that reside there". VERDICT: There is no evidence that this is actually occurring. Trump's review complied with an ungrounded claim - which was shared through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that migrants coming from Haiti that have actually recently resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually consuming pets.Springfield area representatives told BBC Verify: "There have been actually no legitimate reports or specific cases of household pets being actually damaged, harmed or even mistreated by individuals within the immigrant neighborhood." You can read more here.Was Trump-era jobless awful considering that 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our team the worst lack of employment due to the fact that the Great Hard times". VERDICT: This is actually misleading. At the end of Trump's term of workplace in January 2021, the unemployment price was actually 6.4%. But it has been higher since the Great Depression.In October 2009, lack of employment reached the top at 10% within of deep financial financial crisis. It has actually fallen steadily considering that, besides a sharp peak in the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in the most current records for August 2024, joblessness stood up at 4.2%. Are actually numerous people coming into the United States coming from prisons and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "We possess countless individuals putting in to our country from prisons as well as jails, coming from mental institutions and crazy asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no proof for these type of numbers.There have had to do with 10 thousand encounters along with migrants crossing over the United States boundary because January 2021. There are actually no openly on call plan the amount of of them have actually provided attend prison or come from psychological establishments however there is some records on the number of have previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand ideas of individuals moving across the boundary illegally until now this financial year (to September 2024) - and also where the Perimeter Patrol was able to inspect versus law enforcement databases - regarding 14,700 individuals possessed previous illegal convictions.That's comparable to approximately 1% of all border thoughts in this particular time frame as well as does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he will authorize a national abortion restriction". DECISION: This is misleading. Trump has actually rejected that he would certainly authorize a national restriction if selected head of state. He has stated that he would leave restrictions on abortion access as much as individual states to decide.Here, Harris additionally discussed "his Task 2025" - a recommendation to a record posted due to the conservative Ancestry Foundation summarizing a list of policy propositions that they believe a Trump presidency should implement.It does not suggest a national restriction either, however it carries out advise restricting abortion access.Trump has distanced himself coming from the file, mentioning: "I recognize absolutely nothing regarding Job 2025. I possess no tip who is behind it." Several former Trump management representatives are actually connected with Task 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living our experts've ever before had" [was actually under Biden] DECISION: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, at a time when costs were actually rising sharply in several countries. Inflation was final above 9% in 1981, however it has actually been actually substantially higher than that at many various other aspects in United States history.Since its own optimal in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However rates are actually still climbing and it is a key issue for a lot of voters.Would Trump tariffs set you back loved ones $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Economists have stated that that Trump purchases tax would in fact lead for center class family members in about $4,000 even more a year". JUDGMENT: Harris names Trump's proposed tax on imports a sales tax obligation. Some business analysts have approximated that these tolls could set you back families this a lot. Others possess reduced quotes. Trump firmly insists the price will be felt by international countries however financial experts feel there will be actually an economical expense for US importers and individuals. The $4,000 number arises from evaluation - by the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Progression - of Trump's promise to boost tariffs on all imported items to 10-20% plus all items imported coming from China to 60%. They took the quantity the United States acquires in products coming from abroad every year, found out just how much the new tax obligations on these products will be actually as well as split this by the variety of houses in the US.It works out at $4,600 every house, however when you consider "center revenue" households you get an amount of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are reduced. The Peterson Institute presumes the influence will be closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or even $2,500 (at 20%). Is unlawful act down in Venezuela due to the fact that it's delivering crooks to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Unlawful Act in Venezuela ... is actually way down given that they have taken their offenders off the roads as well as given them to her [Harris] to embed our nation". JUDGMENT: There is actually no evidence that Venezuela is performing this. Crime amounts are actually down but specialists mention this is actually due to the state of the economic condition. The Venezuelan federal government does not publish reputable crime bodies, yet the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Physical violence does.The Observatory's 2023 annual document pointed out that terrible deaths that year - including murders - were actually down through an one-fourth contrasted to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is lowered in Venezuela through a decrease in unlawful act options: bank break-ins fade away because there is no loan to steal kidnappings are actually lessened because there is no money to spend ransoms." It claimed it had seen no proof that the Venezuelan authorities was actually sending out wrongdoers to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.