.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to move in their first televised argument in the US vote-casting campaign.In 90 mins of typically intense exchanges, the Republican and Autonomous presidential applicants traded cases over vital election concerns featuring the economic condition, migration and abortion.BBC Verify has been checking out them.Are travelers in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [migrants] eating the pet dogs, the people that can be found in, they're eating the cats, they are actually consuming the pet dogs of individuals that reside there". VERDICT: There is no proof that this is taking place. Trump's remark followed an unjustified case - which was actually shared by his vice-presidential candidate JD Vance - that immigrants coming from Haiti who have actually recently settled in Springfield, Ohio, have been consuming pets.Springfield area officials said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been actually no reliable files or even particular cases of pets being damaged, injured or hurt or even misused through people within the immigrant area." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployed the worst due to the fact that 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our team awful lack of employment because the Great Hard times". VERDICT: This is inaccurate. In the end of Trump's term of office in January 2021, the lack of employment price was actually 6.4%. But it has been much higher since the Great Depression.In October 2009, lack of employment topped at 10% in a period of deep-seated financial financial crisis. It has fallen steadily since, in addition to a sharp peak during the course of the Covid pandemic, and also in the absolute most recent data for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are numerous people coming into the US from jails as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "We have countless individuals putting right into our country coming from jails and also jails, coming from mental establishments as well as crazy asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no proof for these kind of numbers.There have actually had to do with 10 thousand encounters with evacuees changeover the United States border given that January 2021. There are no openly readily available plan the amount of of all of them have served time in jail or come from psychological institutions but there is some data on the number of have previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand awareness of individuals crossing the border unlawfully so far this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and also where the Perimeter Patrol had the ability to check versus law enforcement databases - about 14,700 individuals possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's equal to about 1% of all boundary understandings in this particular duration and does not total up to the "millions" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to become re-elected, he is going to sign a national abortion ban". JUDGMENT: This is misleading. Trump has refused that he will sign a nationwide restriction if chosen head of state. He possesses claimed that he would certainly leave limitations on abortion get access to as much as individual states to decide.Here, Harris additionally referred to "his Project 2025" - a reference to a file published by the conservative Ancestry Base outlining a checklist of plan plans that they think a Trump presidency need to implement.It doesn't propose a national restriction either, but it does recommend confining abortion access.Trump has actually distanced himself from the paper, mentioning: "I understand nothing concerning Task 2025. I have no suggestion that lags it." Several former Trump administration officials are linked with Project 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful inflation our experts've ever before possessed" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually false. Under President Biden, rising cost of living topped at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when prices were climbing greatly in a lot of nations. Rising cost of living was actually final over 9% in 1981, however it has actually been actually substantially greater than that at many other aspects in US history.Since its own peak in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. But costs are actually still climbing and also it is a key problem for numerous voters.Would Trump tariffs set you back households $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Economists have mentioned that that Trump purchases income tax would in fact lead for mid class loved ones in approximately $4,000 more a year". DECISION: Harris calls Trump's recommended tax obligation on imports a sales tax obligation. Some financial experts have estimated that these tolls might cost loved ones this much. Others possess lower estimates. Trump urges the expense will be believed by foreign countries but financial experts believe there would be a financial price for US international merchants as well as customers. The $4,000 amount stems from evaluation - due to the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Progress - of Trump's guarantee to improve tariffs on all imported goods to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the United States buys in goods from abroad annually, determined how much the brand new income taxes on these products would be actually and also divided this by the lot of households in the US.It works out at $4,600 per home, however when you look at "center revenue" households you acquire a number of $3,900 a year.Other estimations are actually lesser. The Peterson Principle thinks the effect would be closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is criminal activity down in Venezuela because it's sending thugs to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is way down given that they have taken their criminals off the streets and also provided to her [Harris] to put into our nation". VERDICT: There is actually no proof that Venezuela is performing this. Crime amounts are actually down but specialists say this is actually as a result of the condition of the economic climate. The Venezuelan authorities performs not post reliable unlawful act bodies, however the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly record pointed out that terrible fatalities that year - like murders - were actually down through an one-fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Criminal activity is lessened in Venezuela through a decline in unlawful act chances: financial institution burglaries disappear because there is no loan to take kidnappings are reduced given that there is actually no cash money to pay for ransom money." It mentioned it had actually viewed no documentation that the Venezuelan government was actually delivering bad guys to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.