.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their 1st televised controversy in the United States political election campaign.In 90 moments of frequently fiery swaps, the Republican politician as well as Autonomous presidential prospects traded insurance claims over crucial vote-casting concerns featuring the economy, migration as well as abortion.BBC Verify has actually been actually examining them.Are travelers in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] consuming the dogs, people that can be found in, they are actually eating the felines, they're consuming the animals of people that reside there". JUDGMENT: There is actually no documentation that this is actually taking place. Trump's remark observed an ungrounded insurance claim - which was discussed through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that immigrants coming from Haiti who have actually just recently worked out in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually consuming pets.Springfield area authorities informed BBC Verify: "There have actually been no qualified documents or even details insurance claims of pet dogs being hurt, hurt or mistreated by people within the immigrant area." You can learn more here.Was Trump-era unemployment the worst because 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful joblessness since the Great Hard times". JUDGMENT: This is false. In the end of Trump's term of office in January 2021, the unemployment cost was actually 6.4%. Yet it has actually been higher because the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, lack of employment came to a head at 10% within of deep-seated economic financial crisis. It has actually fallen gradually given that, besides a sharp optimal throughout the Covid pandemic, as well as in the most latest information for August 2024, joblessness stood up at 4.2%. Are actually millions of people entering into the United States from penitentiaries as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts possess numerous individuals putting into our nation from penitentiaries as well as prisons, from psychological companies and ridiculous asylums". DECISION: There is actually no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have actually had to do with 10 thousand confrontations along with travelers transition the US perimeter considering that January 2021. There are actually no openly accessible figures on how many of them have actually provided time in jail or come from psychological institutions yet there is actually some information on the number of possess previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 million awareness of folks crossing the boundary illegitimately until now this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and also where the Perimeter Watch managed to check against law enforcement data sources - regarding 14,700 people had previous unlawful convictions.That's equal to approximately 1% of all border understandings in this particular duration as well as doesn't amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump sign a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to become re-elected, he will certainly authorize a national abortion restriction". VERDICT: This is deceiving. Trump has actually denied that he would certainly sign a nationwide ban if chosen president. He possesses stated that he will leave behind restrictions on abortion accessibility around specific states to decide.Here, Harris additionally referred to "his Job 2025" - a reference to a documentation published by the right-wing Culture Foundation summarizing a listing of policy proposals that they feel a Trump presidency should implement.It does not suggest a nationwide ban either, but it does highly recommend confining abortion access.Trump has outdoed himself from the documentation, mentioning: "I know nothing regarding Task 2025. I possess no tip that is behind it." Several past Trump administration representatives are actually linked with Project 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "The most awful rising cost of living our experts have actually ever before had" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually incorrect. Under Head of state Biden, rising cost of living topped at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when prices were climbing dramatically in several countries. Inflation was actually last over 9% in 1981, however it has actually been actually dramatically more than that at numerous other factors in United States history.Since its own top in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet rates are still rising and also it is actually a vital problem for a lot of voters.Would Trump tolls set you back households $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Economic experts have mentioned that that Trump sales tax obligation would in fact lead for middle class loved ones in approximately $4,000 additional a year". JUDGMENT: Harris calls Trump's recommended tax obligation on imports a purchases tax. Some financial experts have approximated that these tolls could possibly set you back loved ones this much. Others possess reduced price quotes. Trump asserts the price would certainly be actually experienced through foreign countries however financial experts strongly believe there would certainly be an economic cost for United States international merchants as well as customers. The $4,000 number comes from review - due to the left-of-centre brain trust the Facility for American Progression - of Trump's vow to enhance tolls on all imported items to 10-20% and all items imported from China to 60%. They took the amount the United States gets in items coming from abroad yearly, found out the amount of the brand new income taxes on these goods would certainly be actually and also divided this by the lot of houses in the US.It exercises at $4,600 per house, but when you examine "center earnings" loved ones you acquire an amount of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are actually reduced. The Peterson Institute assumes the influence will be closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal offense down in Venezuela because it's sending out lawbreakers to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Crime in Venezuela ... is actually way down considering that they have actually taken their wrongdoers off the roads and also given them to her [Harris] to put into our country". DECISION: There is actually no documentation that Venezuela is performing this. Criminal offense degrees are down yet experts claim this is actually due to the state of the economic situation. The Venezuelan authorities performs certainly not release trustworthy criminal offense bodies, yet the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly file pointed out that terrible deaths that year - such as murders - were down by a quarter compared to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Crime is actually reduced in Venezuela by a decline in crime opportunities: financial institution robberies disappear because there is actually no amount of money to swipe kidnappings are actually minimized because there is actually no money to pay out ransom money." It mentioned it had actually observed no proof that the Venezuelan government was sending out wrongdoers to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.