.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised dispute in the US election campaign.In 90 mins of often fiery substitutions, the Republican politician and also Democratic presidential candidates traded cases over essential vote-casting issues featuring the economic situation, migration and abortion.BBC Verify has actually been checking out them.Are travelers in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the dogs, people that was available in, they are actually eating the felines, they're eating the animals of individuals that stay there". DECISION: There is actually no documentation that this is actually occurring. Trump's opinion adhered to an unjustifiable insurance claim - which was shared through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti who have recently cleared up in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating pets.Springfield urban area officials said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been no trustworthy reports or even particular insurance claims of pets being actually injured, injured or hurt or even misused by individuals within the immigrant area." You can read more here.Was Trump-era out of work awful given that 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left us awful unemployment given that the Great Depression". DECISION: This is misleading. At the end of Trump's condition of office in January 2021, the unemployment fee was actually 6.4%. But it has actually been actually greater because the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness reached the top at 10% within of deep-seated financial financial crisis. It has dropped progressively due to the fact that, besides a sharp peak during the course of the Covid pandemic, and in the most recent data for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are millions of people entering into the US from jails and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company possess countless folks pouring into our nation from penitentiaries and also jails, from mental institutions and ridiculous asylums". JUDGMENT: There is actually no documentation for these type of numbers.There have concerned 10 million encounters with travelers transition the US boundary because January 2021. There are no openly accessible figures on the amount of of them have offered attend penitentiary or even stem from psychological companies yet there is actually some records on the amount of possess previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand thoughts of people traversing the perimeter unlawfully so far this financial year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Boundary Patrol managed to check against law enforcement data banks - about 14,700 individuals possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's equivalent to approximately 1% of all perimeter knowledge in this duration and also doesn't total up to the "thousands" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will definitely authorize a nationwide abortion ban". VERDICT: This is actually confusing. Trump has actually refused that he would authorize a national ban if elected head of state. He has said that he would certainly leave behind limits on abortion access as much as individual states to decide.Here, Harris also discussed "his Task 2025" - an endorsement to a document posted due to the right-wing Ancestry Base detailing a list of policy plans that they strongly believe a Trump presidency must implement.It doesn't propose a national ban either, but it carries out suggest confining abortion access.Trump has distanced themself from the record, pointing out: "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no concept that lags it." Numerous past Trump administration officials are actually connected with Job 2025. Was rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "The most awful inflation our company have actually ever before possessed" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually untrue. Under Head of state Biden, rising cost of living reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, each time when prices were rising greatly in several countries. Inflation was actually last over 9% in 1981, yet it has been actually substantially greater than that at numerous other factors in US history.Since its own top in mid-2022, inflation has actually dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However prices are actually still climbing as well as it is a key problem for several voters.Would Trump tariffs set you back families $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Economists have stated that that Trump sales tax obligation will in fact lead for mid lesson families in approximately $4,000 additional a year". JUDGMENT: Harris names Trump's recommended tax on bring ins a purchases tax. Some business analysts have approximated that these tolls might cost family members this a lot. Others possess reduced estimates. Trump urges the expense will be actually believed through overseas nations however financial experts think there would certainly be a financial expense for US importers and customers. The $4,000 number originates from study - by the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Progression - of Trump's promise to boost tolls on all imported products to 10-20% and all products imported coming from China to 60%. They took the amount the US acquires in items coming from abroad every year, identified the amount of the brand new income taxes on these products would be actually and also separated this due to the variety of homes in the US.It works out at $4,600 per household, however when you check out "mid profit" loved ones you receive a figure of $3,900 a year.Other estimates are reduced. The Peterson Institute assumes the impact would certainly be closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or $2,500 (at twenty%). Is crime down in Venezuela because it's sending out offenders to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Unlawful Act in Venezuela ... is actually way down due to the fact that they have taken their wrongdoers off the streets and provided to her [Harris] to embed our nation". DECISION: There is no documentation that Venezuela is actually performing this. Criminal offense degrees are down but pros mention this is because of the state of the economic situation. The Venezuelan authorities carries out not post trusted criminal activity figures, however the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Physical violence does.The Observatory's 2023 annual record pointed out that violent fatalities that year - such as homicides - were actually down by an one-fourth contrasted to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Criminal activity is actually minimized in Venezuela through a decrease in criminal activity chances: financial institution robberies disappear because there is no amount of money to steal kidnappings are actually minimized due to the fact that there is actually no cash to pay for ransoms." It claimed it had found no evidence that the Venezuelan authorities was sending out crooks to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.