.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised argument in the United States vote-casting campaign.In 90 minutes of usually fiery swaps, the Republican and also Democratic governmental prospects traded cases over essential vote-casting problems including the economic condition, immigration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been checking out them.Are evacuees in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [immigrants] eating the canines, individuals that came in, they are actually consuming the cats, they're consuming the dogs of individuals that reside there". JUDGMENT: There is no proof that this is actually happening. Trump's comment followed an unjustifiable claim - which was shared through his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that immigrants from Haiti who have actually lately resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating pets.Springfield metropolitan area authorities said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been actually no qualified records or even details insurance claims of pet dogs being harmed, hurt or even abused by individuals within the immigrant community." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployment awful given that 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful lack of employment considering that the Great Depression". JUDGMENT: This is actually misleading. In the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the lack of employment fee was 6.4%. But it has actually been much higher since the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, lack of employment topped at 10% within of deeper financial financial crisis. It has fallen steadily since, other than a stinging top during the Covid pandemic, and also in the absolute most current records for August 2024, joblessness stood up at 4.2%. Are actually numerous people entering the United States coming from jails and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "We possess numerous folks putting right into our country from jails and prisons, from mental organizations as well as crazy asylums". DECISION: There is actually no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have been about 10 million encounters with evacuees transition the US border because January 2021. There are actually no openly on call figures on the amount of of all of them have provided attend jail or even originate from psychological institutions yet there is some information on the amount of have previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand understandings of individuals crossing the boundary unlawfully thus far this financial year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Boundary Patrol had the capacity to examine versus law enforcement data sources - about 14,700 individuals had previous criminal convictions.That's equal to approximately 1% of all perimeter awareness in this duration and does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will certainly authorize a nationwide abortion restriction". JUDGMENT: This is deceiving. Trump has refuted that he will authorize a national restriction if selected head of state. He possesses pointed out that he would leave behind limits on abortion access around personal conditions to decide.Here, Harris additionally talked about "his Task 2025" - an endorsement to a paper released by the conservative Culture Structure describing a listing of policy propositions that they believe a Trump presidency need to implement.It doesn't recommend a nationwide ban either, however it carries out suggest restricting abortion access.Trump has actually outdoed themself from the documentation, pointing out: "I know absolutely nothing concerning Task 2025. I have no suggestion who is behind it." Numerous past Trump administration officials are linked with Project 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful inflation our company have actually ever before possessed" [was actually under Biden] JUDGMENT: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when rates were actually climbing greatly in numerous countries. Rising cost of living was final above 9% in 1981, but it has actually been actually dramatically higher than that at several other points in US history.Since its optimal in mid-2022, inflation has actually dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However rates are actually still increasing and also it is actually a key concern for numerous voters.Would Trump tolls cost families $4,000? CASE: Harris: "Economists have actually mentioned that that Trump purchases tax obligation will really result for mid lesson loved ones in about $4,000 more a year". DECISION: Harris refers to as Trump's suggested tax obligation on bring ins a sales income tax. Some financial experts have approximated that these tariffs could cost households this a lot. Others have lower price quotes. Trump firmly insists the price would be actually thought by foreign countries but economists strongly believe there would certainly be actually an economic cost for US importers as well as individuals. The $4,000 number arises from evaluation - by the left-of-centre brain trust the Facility for American Progress - of Trump's vow to boost tolls on all imported items to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the quantity the US acquires in items from abroad each year, identified how much the new income taxes on these products will be and separated this due to the amount of houses in the US.It works out at $4,600 per home, however when you consider "center income" family members you receive a figure of $3,900 a year.Other quotes are lower. The Peterson Principle assumes the influence would be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is criminal activity down in Venezuela because it's sending crooks to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is actually way down considering that they have actually taken their offenders off the roads as well as provided to her [Harris] to put into our nation". JUDGMENT: There is no evidence that Venezuela is doing this. Unlawful act degrees are down yet professionals claim this is actually due to the condition of the economic situation. The Venezuelan federal government does not post dependable crime bodies, but the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 annual document said that fierce fatalities that year - such as murders - were down through an one-fourth contrasted to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Criminal offense is actually reduced in Venezuela through a decrease in crime chances: bank burglaries disappear given that there is actually no money to steal kidnappings are lowered due to the fact that there is no money to pay for ransoms." It said it had actually observed no evidence that the Venezuelan federal government was actually delivering offenders to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.