.Getty ImagesDonald Trump as well as Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised argument in the United States political election campaign.In 90 moments of frequently fiery swaps, the Republican as well as Democratic presidential prospects traded cases over crucial vote-casting concerns consisting of the economic situation, migration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been examining them.Are migrants in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the dogs, individuals that came in, they are actually consuming the felines, they're consuming the pet dogs of folks that live there". VERDICT: There is no proof that this is actually happening. Trump's comment observed an unsupported insurance claim - which was discussed by his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that immigrants from Haiti who have actually just recently settled in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually eating pets.Springfield area representatives said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been no reputable reports or specific cases of pet dogs being damaged, harmed or even abused through people within the immigrant area." You can read more here.Was Trump-era jobless the worst since 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment given that the Great Depression". JUDGMENT: This is inaccurate. In the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the joblessness cost was actually 6.4%. But it has been much higher given that the Great Depression.In October 2009, unemployment came to a head at 10% in a period of deeper financial financial crisis. It has dropped gradually given that, apart from a sharp top during the Covid pandemic, as well as in the most latest data for August 2024, lack of employment stood up at 4.2%. Are countless people entering into the United States coming from prisons and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our team have countless folks putting right into our nation from jails and prisons, from mental organizations and ridiculous asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no documentation for these type of numbers.There have actually been about 10 million rendezvous along with travelers transition the United States border because January 2021. There are no publicly available figures on how many of them have actually served time in jail or arise from mental organizations yet there is some information on the amount of have previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand understandings of folks going across the boundary illegally thus far this financial year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Border Patrol had the capacity to check against law enforcement data sources - about 14,700 individuals possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's equal to around 1% of all boundary understandings in this time period as well as does not total up to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he will certainly sign a national abortion restriction". JUDGMENT: This is actually deceptive. Trump has refuted that he would authorize a nationwide restriction if chosen president. He possesses claimed that he will leave restrictions on abortion gain access to as much as specific conditions to decide.Here, Harris likewise discussed "his Task 2025" - a recommendation to a record posted by the right-wing Culture Structure summarizing a list of policy plans that they strongly believe a Trump presidency must implement.It doesn't suggest a national restriction either, but it carries out suggest confining abortion access.Trump has outdoed himself coming from the record, claiming: "I recognize nothing at all about Job 2025. I have no concept that lags it." Many previous Trump administration officials are associated with Job 2025. Was actually inflation under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful inflation our experts have actually ever before possessed" [was actually under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually untrue. Under Head of state Biden, rising cost of living topped at 9.1% in June 2022, at a time when costs were increasing greatly in lots of nations. Inflation was final above 9% in 1981, but it has actually been actually substantially higher than that at many other aspects in US history.Since its height in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually lost to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet prices are actually still increasing as well as it is actually an essential issue for lots of voters.Would Trump tolls cost families $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Economists have pointed out that that Trump purchases tax obligation would actually result for center course households in around $4,000 even more a year". VERDICT: Harris names Trump's proposed income tax on imports a sales tax. Some economic experts have actually predicted that these tolls can cost family members this much. Others possess lower estimations. Trump insists the price will be actually thought by international countries however economists believe there would be actually an economical expense for United States foreign buyers and buyers. The $4,000 number comes from review - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Centre for American Improvement - of Trump's vow to improve tolls on all imported products to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the amount the US gets in goods coming from abroad annually, found out how much the new tax obligations on these products would be and separated this due to the variety of houses in the US.It exercises at $4,600 every home, however when you look at "mid revenue" households you get a figure of $3,900 a year.Other quotes are lesser. The Peterson Institute believes the influence would be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is actually criminal activity down in Venezuela because it is actually delivering offenders to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is actually way down due to the fact that they have actually taken their thugs off the roads and given them to her [Harris] to take into our country". DECISION: There is actually no proof that Venezuela is doing this. Criminal activity degrees are actually down yet specialists mention this is as a result of the condition of the economy. The Venezuelan federal government carries out not post trusted crime numbers, but the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly record said that violent fatalities that year - such as murders - were actually down by a fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Criminal activity is actually lessened in Venezuela through a reduction in unlawful act opportunities: banking company break-ins vanish due to the fact that there is no cash to swipe kidnappings are actually reduced since there is no cash money to pay ransoms." It stated it had seen no evidence that the Venezuelan government was actually sending wrongdoers to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.