.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their very first televised controversy in the US vote-casting campaign.In 90 mins of commonly fiery exchanges, the Republican politician as well as Autonomous presidential prospects traded cases over crucial vote-casting problems consisting of the economic climate, immigration as well as abortion.BBC Verify has actually been reviewing them.Are migrants in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the pets, the people that came in, they are actually consuming the felines, they're eating the household pets of folks that reside there". VERDICT: There is actually no proof that this is actually occurring. Trump's comment adhered to an unjustifiable case - which was actually shared by his vice-presidential prospect JD Vance - that migrants coming from Haiti who have recently settled in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been eating pets.Springfield area authorities said to BBC Verify: "There have been no reliable records or specific insurance claims of family pets being actually injured, harmed or misused by people within the immigrant community." You can read more here.Was Trump-era out of work the most awful considering that 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left our team awful lack of employment due to the fact that the Great Crash". VERDICT: This is misleading. In the end of Trump's phrase of workplace in January 2021, the joblessness fee was 6.4%. Yet it has been higher since the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, joblessness came to a head at 10% within of deep-seated financial financial crisis. It has actually fallen progressively given that, besides a stinging optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in the most recent data for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are actually countless folks coming into the United States from jails and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company possess countless people putting right into our nation coming from prisons as well as jails, from mental companies and also ridiculous asylums". JUDGMENT: There is actually no proof for these type of numbers.There have had to do with 10 million rendezvous along with migrants changeover the United States boundary because January 2021. There are no openly readily available plan how many of them have actually served attend penitentiary or even come from psychological organizations however there is actually some information on the number of have previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 million perspicacities of individuals traversing the border illegally so far this financial year (to September 2024) - and where the Boundary Watch had the capacity to inspect versus law enforcement databases - about 14,700 people possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's comparable to approximately 1% of all boundary judgments in this particular time period as well as does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to become re-elected, he is going to authorize a national abortion ban". JUDGMENT: This is actually deceptive. Trump has actually refused that he will sign a nationwide restriction if selected president. He has said that he would certainly leave behind restrictions on abortion gain access to up to personal conditions to decide.Here, Harris also discussed "his Project 2025" - a reference to a document posted due to the right-wing Ancestry Base outlining a list of plan propositions that they strongly believe a Trump presidency ought to implement.It doesn't propose a national ban either, yet it carries out advise confining abortion access.Trump has actually outdoed himself coming from the paper, claiming: "I know absolutely nothing concerning Job 2025. I possess no idea that is behind it." Numerous past Trump management officials are actually linked with Job 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living our team have actually ever before had" [was actually under Biden] JUDGMENT: This is inaccurate. Under President Biden, rising cost of living came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when costs were actually rising sharply in a lot of nations. Inflation was last over 9% in 1981, yet it has actually been actually substantially greater than that at a number of other points in US history.Since its own height in mid-2022, inflation has actually fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet costs are still climbing as well as it is a crucial issue for numerous voters.Would Trump tariffs cost loved ones $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Business analysts have actually stated that that Trump purchases tax would really lead for middle class family members in approximately $4,000 additional a year". DECISION: Harris refers to as Trump's suggested tax obligation on bring ins a purchases tax obligation. Some business analysts have approximated that these tariffs might set you back loved ones this a lot. Others have lower estimations. Trump insists the price will be actually thought through overseas countries yet economists strongly believe there would be actually a financial price for US foreign buyers as well as customers. The $4,000 amount originates from evaluation - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Center for American Progress - of Trump's guarantee to improve tolls on all imported goods to 10-20% and all products imported coming from China to 60%. They took the amount the US gets in items from abroad each year, found out just how much the brand-new tax obligations on these goods will be actually and split this by the amount of households in the US.It exercises at $4,600 every home, but when you take a look at "center income" loved ones you get an amount of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are reduced. The Peterson Principle thinks the impact would certainly be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at twenty%). Is criminal activity down in Venezuela because it is actually sending out wrongdoers to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Crime in Venezuela ... is actually way down considering that they have actually taken their bad guys off the streets as well as given them to her [Harris] to take into our country". DECISION: There is actually no documentation that Venezuela is doing this. Criminal activity degrees are down yet specialists say this is actually because of the state of the economic condition. The Venezuelan federal government does not publish trustworthy crime figures, however the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly report claimed that violent fatalities that year - including homicides - were down through a fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory said to BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is minimized in Venezuela through a reduction in criminal activity chances: bank burglaries vanish given that there is actually no amount of money to steal kidnappings are minimized due to the fact that there is actually no cash to spend ransom money." It said it had viewed no documentation that the Venezuelan government was actually delivering crooks to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.