.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to move in their first televised discussion in the United States political election campaign.In 90 moments of usually intense exchanges, the Republican as well as Autonomous presidential prospects traded cases over crucial vote-casting problems including the economy, immigration as well as abortion.BBC Verify has been checking out them.Are travelers in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [immigrants] eating the dogs, people that came in, they are actually eating the cats, they are actually eating the pets of people that reside there". DECISION: There is actually no proof that this is happening. Trump's remark followed a baseless case - which was actually discussed through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti who have lately resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been eating pets.Springfield metropolitan area representatives told BBC Verify: "There have actually been no reliable files or certain claims of dogs being hurt, injured or even mistreated by people within the immigrant area." You can find out more here.Was Trump-era jobless the worst since 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left us awful lack of employment considering that the Great Hard times". JUDGMENT: This is untrue. In the end of Trump's condition of workplace in January 2021, the joblessness cost was 6.4%. Yet it has been higher due to the fact that the Great Depression.In October 2009, lack of employment peaked at 10% in a period of deeper financial recession. It has dropped progressively considering that, other than a sharp height during the Covid pandemic, and in one of the most recent records for August 2024, joblessness stood at 4.2%. Are actually millions of people entering the United States coming from penitentiaries and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts have millions of folks putting right into our nation coming from prisons and also prisons, from mental institutions and also insane asylums". DECISION: There is no proof for these type of numbers.There have actually had to do with 10 thousand encounters with migrants changeover the US boundary considering that January 2021. There are no publicly available figures on the amount of of all of them have provided time in penitentiary or even come from psychological institutions yet there is actually some data on the number of possess previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand judgments of people crossing the boundary illegitimately so far this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and where the Border Watch had the ability to check out versus law enforcement databases - concerning 14,700 individuals possessed previous illegal convictions.That's equal to approximately 1% of all boundary judgments in this duration as well as doesn't amount to the "millions" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will definitely authorize a nationwide abortion restriction". JUDGMENT: This is misleading. Trump has actually refused that he will sign a national restriction if selected president. He possesses stated that he would leave behind restrictions on abortion access around private conditions to decide.Here, Harris additionally discussed "his Job 2025" - a recommendation to a file posted due to the conservative Heritage Groundwork describing a list of plan propositions that they strongly believe a Trump presidency should implement.It doesn't suggest a national ban either, however it does recommend restricting abortion access.Trump has outdoed himself from the documentation, saying: "I know absolutely nothing about Venture 2025. I possess no concept that is behind it." A lot of previous Trump management officials are linked with Project 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "The most awful rising cost of living we've ever possessed" [was actually under Biden] DECISION: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, each time when costs were actually increasing dramatically in several nations. Rising cost of living was final over 9% in 1981, but it has been significantly more than that at several various other points in US history.Since its own height in mid-2022, inflation has actually gone down to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. But prices are still climbing and it is actually an essential issue for many voters.Would Trump tariffs cost households $4,000? CLAIM: Harris: "Economists have said that that Trump purchases income tax would actually result for center class families in approximately $4,000 even more a year". DECISION: Harris refers to as Trump's proposed tax obligation on bring ins a sales income tax. Some business analysts have estimated that these tariffs can set you back families this much. Others possess lower estimates. Trump urges the price will be actually experienced through overseas countries however economists believe there would be actually a financial price for US international merchants as well as consumers. The $4,000 number originates from study - by the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Progression - of Trump's promise to improve tolls on all imported goods to 10-20% plus all goods imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the US gets in products coming from abroad every year, figured out just how much the brand new tax obligations on these products would certainly be actually and split this by the amount of households in the US.It works out at $4,600 per home, however when you consider "middle revenue" loved ones you acquire a figure of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are lower. The Peterson Institute assumes the influence will be closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal activity down in Venezuela considering that it's delivering wrongdoers to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Crime in Venezuela ... is way down since they have actually taken their bad guys off the roads and also provided to her [Harris] to embed our country". VERDICT: There is no evidence that Venezuela is actually performing this. Criminal activity amounts are actually down however experts mention this is actually as a result of the condition of the economy. The Venezuelan government carries out certainly not release dependable criminal activity figures, however the private Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 annual report said that violent deaths that year - such as homicides - were actually down by a fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is actually lessened in Venezuela through a decline in criminal offense possibilities: financial institution robberies vanish because there is no loan to take kidnappings are actually decreased because there is no money to pay for ransoms." It said it had seen no proof that the Venezuelan government was delivering crooks to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.