.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to head in their very first televised argument in the US election campaign.In 90 minutes of frequently intense swaps, the Republican politician and also Autonomous presidential candidates traded claims over essential election issues featuring the economic climate, immigration and abortion.BBC Verify has been examining them.Are travelers in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] consuming the dogs, people that came in, they're eating the felines, they are actually consuming the pet dogs of individuals that reside there". DECISION: There is no evidence that this is happening. Trump's remark followed an unsupported case - which was actually discussed through his vice-presidential prospect JD Vance - that immigrants coming from Haiti that have actually recently settled in Springfield, Ohio, have been actually consuming pets.Springfield area authorities said to BBC Verify: "There have been actually no legitimate files or particular insurance claims of household pets being actually hurt, wounded or even abused by people within the immigrant community." You can read more here.Was Trump-era out of work awful since 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left our team the most awful joblessness since the Great Crash". VERDICT: This is inaccurate. By the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the joblessness cost was actually 6.4%. But it has been actually higher since the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness topped at 10% within of deep-seated economical recession. It has fallen steadily considering that, other than a stinging peak in the course of the Covid pandemic, and in the most latest data for August 2024, unemployment stood up at 4.2%. Are actually numerous folks entering the US from penitentiaries and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our team have numerous people pouring in to our country coming from penitentiaries as well as jails, from psychological companies as well as outrageous asylums". DECISION: There is actually no evidence for these sort of numbers.There have concerned 10 million confrontations along with evacuees transition the US boundary given that January 2021. There are no publicly offered plan the number of of them have offered attend penitentiary or originate from mental organizations yet there is actually some data on the amount of have previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand thoughts of folks moving across the boundary illegally so far this financial year (to September 2024) - and also where the Border Watch had the capacity to check out versus police data sources - concerning 14,700 people had previous illegal convictions.That's equivalent to about 1% of all boundary understandings within this time period as well as does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to become re-elected, he will definitely sign a national abortion ban". JUDGMENT: This is actually deceiving. Trump has rejected that he will sign a national restriction if elected president. He possesses claimed that he would leave behind limitations on abortion get access to approximately specific conditions to decide.Here, Harris likewise discussed "his Job 2025" - an endorsement to a record published due to the conservative Heritage Groundwork summarizing a list of policy plans that they believe a Trump presidency must implement.It doesn't propose a nationwide restriction either, but it does suggest limiting abortion access.Trump has actually distanced themself from the record, claiming: "I understand nothing at all about Job 2025. I possess no idea who is behind it." Numerous past Trump administration officials are actually linked with Project 2025. Was actually inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living our company've ever before possessed" [was under Biden] JUDGMENT: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when rates were rising greatly in several nations. Rising cost of living was actually final over 9% in 1981, however it has actually been substantially higher than that at several various other aspects in United States history.Since its peak in mid-2022, inflation has fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet prices are actually still increasing and also it is a crucial concern for lots of voters.Would Trump tolls cost families $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Economists have actually said that that Trump sales tax obligation will actually result for center class households in around $4,000 even more a year". VERDICT: Harris refers to as Trump's proposed tax obligation on imports a purchases income tax. Some business analysts have estimated that these tolls could set you back family members this a lot. Others possess lower estimates. Trump insists the price would be believed by international countries however business analysts believe there would be actually an economical price for US international merchants and also customers. The $4,000 amount comes from study - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Center for American Development - of Trump's pledge to increase tariffs on all imported items to 10-20% and all items imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the United States buys in items coming from abroad annually, determined the amount of the brand new taxes on these items would certainly be and split this due to the variety of homes in the US.It exercises at $4,600 every household, however when you examine "mid revenue" family members you obtain a body of $3,900 a year.Other estimates are actually reduced. The Peterson Institute thinks the effect would certainly be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is criminal activity down in Venezuela since it's sending out lawbreakers to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is way down given that they have taken their offenders off the roads and given them to her [Harris] to take into our nation". VERDICT: There is actually no evidence that Venezuela is actually performing this. Criminal offense levels are down yet specialists state this is actually because of the state of the economic climate. The Venezuelan federal government does not post trustworthy criminal activity numbers, but the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 annual report said that violent fatalities that year - including murders - were down through a quarter matched up to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Criminal activity is actually lowered in Venezuela by a decrease in unlawful act possibilities: banking company burglaries go away since there is actually no cash to steal kidnappings are reduced due to the fact that there is actually no money to pay out ransom money." It mentioned it had seen no documentation that the Venezuelan government was sending lawbreakers to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.