.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised controversy in the US political election campaign.In 90 mins of frequently fiery substitutions, the Republican and Autonomous presidential candidates traded cases over crucial election concerns including the economy, immigration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been actually analyzing them.Are evacuees in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [immigrants] consuming the pet dogs, individuals that came in, they're eating the pet cats, they are actually consuming the pet dogs of folks that stay there". JUDGMENT: There is actually no evidence that this is happening. Trump's opinion observed an unjustifiable claim - which was actually shared by his vice-presidential candidate JD Vance - that immigrants from Haiti that have just recently cleared up in Springfield, Ohio, have been actually eating pets.Springfield metropolitan area authorities informed BBC Verify: "There have been no qualified reports or even particular claims of animals being harmed, injured or hurt or even misused through people within the immigrant community." You can read more here.Was Trump-era out of work awful due to the fact that 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful joblessness given that the Great Hard times". JUDGMENT: This is actually untrue. In the end of Trump's phrase of workplace in January 2021, the joblessness rate was 6.4%. Yet it has actually been actually higher since the Great Depression.In October 2009, lack of employment reached the top at 10% within of deep financial financial crisis. It has fallen gradually due to the fact that, apart from a stinging peak in the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in one of the most recent data for August 2024, lack of employment stood at 4.2%. Are countless folks entering the US from penitentiaries and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company possess countless people pouring right into our nation coming from jails and jails, coming from mental institutions as well as ridiculous asylums". VERDICT: There is no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have actually been about 10 thousand encounters with travelers transition the US perimeter because January 2021. There are actually no openly offered plan how many of them have provided time in jail or even stem from psychological establishments yet there is some records on the number of possess previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand judgments of folks going across the border unlawfully so far this financial year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Boundary Patrol was able to examine against law enforcement data banks - concerning 14,700 folks possessed previous illegal convictions.That's comparable to roughly 1% of all border thoughts in this time frame and 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 nationwide abortion ban". VERDICT: This is confusing. Trump has actually rejected that he will sign a nationwide ban if selected head of state. He possesses mentioned that he would certainly leave behind limits on abortion accessibility up to private states to decide.Here, Harris also talked about "his Project 2025" - a referral to a paper posted by the conservative Ancestry Groundwork describing a list of plan proposals that they believe a Trump presidency ought to implement.It doesn't recommend a national ban either, but it performs encourage restricting abortion access.Trump has outdoed themself from the documentation, claiming: "I know absolutely nothing concerning Job 2025. I have no tip that lags it." Numerous former Trump administration officials are associated with Job 2025. Was rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "The worst inflation our team have actually ever possessed" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is incorrect. Under Head of state Biden, inflation reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when costs were actually increasing greatly in a lot of countries. Rising cost of living was actually last above 9% in 1981, however it has actually been actually substantially higher than that at several various other aspects in United States history.Since its height in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually gone down to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet rates are actually still increasing as well as it is actually a crucial problem for many voters.Would Trump tariffs cost loved ones $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Economic experts have actually said that that Trump sales income tax would actually lead for middle class family members in approximately $4,000 additional a year". VERDICT: Harris names Trump's proposed tax obligation on imports a purchases income tax. Some business analysts have actually estimated that these tariffs could cost households this much. Others have reduced estimates. Trump insists the price would certainly be believed through overseas countries yet economists believe there would be an economical expense for United States foreign buyers and also consumers. The $4,000 figure arises from evaluation - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Centre for American Progression - of Trump's pledge to raise tolls on all imported items to 10-20% plus all goods imported from China to 60%. They took the quantity the US gets in items coming from abroad every year, determined the amount of the brand-new income taxes on these products would certainly be as well as split this due to the variety of homes in the US.It works out at $4,600 per household, but when you check out "mid profit" loved ones you get a figure of $3,900 a year.Other estimations are actually lesser. The Peterson Institute assumes the effect would certainly be closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal activity down in Venezuela because it's sending bad guys to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Offense in Venezuela ... is actually way down given that they have taken their offenders off the roads and given them to her [Harris] to embed our nation". VERDICT: There is no proof that Venezuela is actually performing this. Criminal offense amounts are actually down however specialists mention this is actually due to the condition of the economic condition. The Venezuelan authorities carries out not post reliable criminal activity amounts, yet the private Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly document stated that intense deaths that year - like homicides - were actually down by a quarter reviewed to 2022. The Observatory said to BBC Verify: "Crime is actually decreased in Venezuela by a reduction in criminal offense chances: banking company burglaries disappear because there is no funds to swipe kidnappings are decreased since there is actually no money to pay out ransom money." It said it had actually seen no evidence that the Venezuelan federal government was actually sending crooks to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.