.Getty ImagesDonald Trump as well as Kamala Harris went head to move in their very first televised controversy in the US political election campaign.In 90 moments of frequently intense exchanges, the Republican politician as well as Democratic governmental applicants traded cases over key election problems consisting of the economy, immigration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been checking out them.Are evacuees in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [migrants] consuming the pets, people that came in, they are actually eating the kitties, they're eating the pets of folks that live there". DECISION: There is actually no evidence that this is happening. Trump's opinion adhered to an unsupported case - which was shared by his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that migrants coming from Haiti that have recently cleared up in Springfield, Ohio, have been consuming pets.Springfield city authorities informed BBC Verify: "There have been no reputable reports or even details insurance claims of family pets being actually damaged, wounded or even violated by people within the immigrant neighborhood." You can find out more here.Was Trump-era out of work the most awful considering that 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful lack of employment considering that the Great Hard times". JUDGMENT: This is untrue. In the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the joblessness price was actually 6.4%. Yet it has been much higher since the Great Depression.In October 2009, lack of employment peaked at 10% within of deeper financial financial crisis. It has actually fallen steadily since, besides a stinging optimal during the Covid pandemic, and also in one of the most recent data for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are actually countless individuals entering into the United States from penitentiaries and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts have millions of individuals putting right into our country from jails and also prisons, coming from psychological establishments and crazy asylums". JUDGMENT: There is actually no proof for these kind of numbers.There have actually had to do with 10 thousand rendezvous with migrants changeover the United States border due to the fact that January 2021. There are no publicly offered figures on the number of of all of them have actually provided time in penitentiary or even come from psychological companies but there is some records on the amount of have previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand apprehensions of individuals moving across the boundary illegitimately until now this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and also where the Boundary Patrol had the capacity to check out against law enforcement databases - about 14,700 individuals possessed previous criminal convictions.That's equivalent to about 1% of all perimeter awareness in this period as well as does not amount to the "millions" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump sign a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he is going to authorize a national abortion ban". VERDICT: This is actually deceiving. Trump has actually refuted that he would certainly authorize a nationwide ban if chosen head of state. He possesses said that he will leave behind limitations on abortion accessibility around personal states to decide.Here, Harris also talked about "his Project 2025" - a reference to a paper released due to the right-wing Culture Groundwork outlining a list of policy plans that they think a Trump presidency should implement.It doesn't recommend a national ban either, but it carries out recommend confining abortion access.Trump has distanced himself coming from the paper, stating: "I know nothing at all regarding Venture 2025. I possess no suggestion who is behind it." A lot of past Trump management officials are actually linked with Venture 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "The worst inflation our company have actually ever before had" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation topped at 9.1% in June 2022, each time when prices were increasing sharply in lots of countries. Rising cost of living was final over 9% in 1981, however it has actually been substantially more than that at several various other factors in United States history.Since its height in mid-2022, inflation has dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet costs are actually still increasing and also it is an essential problem for a lot of voters.Would Trump tariffs set you back households $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Financial experts have actually claimed that that Trump sales tax obligation would in fact lead for middle training class loved ones in about $4,000 even more a year". JUDGMENT: Harris names Trump's proposed tax obligation on imports a purchases income tax. Some economists have actually determined that these tariffs could possibly cost households this much. Others possess lesser estimations. Trump urges the price will be actually experienced through international nations however economists believe there would certainly be actually a financial price for US international merchants and individuals. The $4,000 number originates from review - by the left-of-centre think tank the Center for American Progression - of Trump's pledge to increase tolls on all imported products to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the quantity the US buys in goods coming from abroad each year, figured out just how much the new taxes on these products will be and also split this due to the number of homes in the US.It works out at $4,600 every home, however when you examine "center income" families you acquire a number of $3,900 a year.Other estimates are reduced. The Peterson Institute believes the influence will be closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is criminal activity down in Venezuela since it is actually sending crooks to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is actually way down due to the fact that they have actually taken their bad guys off the streets and provided to her [Harris] to take into our nation". JUDGMENT: There is actually no proof that Venezuela is actually performing this. Unlawful act degrees are down yet professionals mention this is because of the condition of the economic condition. The Venezuelan authorities does not publish trusted criminal activity numbers, however the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly document mentioned that terrible fatalities that year - such as homicides - were down by a fourth matched up to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Criminal activity is actually lessened in Venezuela through a decline in criminal activity chances: bank robberies go away due to the fact that there is no cash to take kidnappings are decreased due to the fact that there is actually no money to pay ransoms." It said it had actually found no proof that the Venezuelan government was actually delivering crooks to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.