.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to move in their initial televised dispute in the US election campaign.In 90 mins of usually intense exchanges, the Republican politician and Democratic governmental candidates traded claims over key election concerns featuring the economic climate, migration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been reviewing them.Are migrants in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [immigrants] eating the pets, the people that was available in, they're eating the felines, they're eating the pet dogs of individuals that live there". VERDICT: There is actually no documentation that this is happening. Trump's comment followed an ungrounded case - which was discussed through his vice-presidential candidate JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti that have actually just recently cleared up in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually consuming pets.Springfield area representatives informed BBC Verify: "There have actually been no reliable files or even particular cases of pets being actually harmed, harmed or abused by people within the immigrant community." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployed awful given that 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left us the worst lack of employment since the Great Depression". JUDGMENT: This is actually misleading. By the end of Trump's condition of office in January 2021, the lack of employment price was 6.4%. However it has been actually much higher considering that the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, unemployment reached the top at 10% in a period of deep-seated economic financial crisis. It has actually fallen continuously because, aside from a stinging optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, and in the best current data for August 2024, unemployment stood at 4.2%. Are actually millions of people entering into the US from jails and also asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "We possess millions of people putting right into our country coming from prisons and also prisons, from psychological institutions as well as ridiculous asylums". DECISION: There is no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have actually been about 10 thousand encounters with evacuees transition the United States boundary because January 2021. There are no openly accessible figures on how many of them have actually provided time in penitentiary or come from mental organizations however there is actually some data on the number of have previous criminal convictions.Of the 1.4 million perspicacities of people traversing the border unlawfully up until now this fiscal year (to September 2024) - as well as where the Perimeter Patrol was able to inspect versus law enforcement data sources - regarding 14,700 people possessed previous criminal convictions.That's equal to approximately 1% of all boundary ideas within this duration as well as doesn't amount to the "thousands" Trump is claiming.Will Trump sign a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to become re-elected, he will authorize a national abortion ban". VERDICT: This is deceiving. Trump has denied that he would sign a nationwide ban if selected head of state. He possesses mentioned that he would certainly leave restrictions on abortion accessibility up to individual states to decide.Here, Harris likewise spoke about "his Venture 2025" - a reference to a record published by the conservative Culture Groundwork summarizing a listing of plan plans that they think a Trump presidency ought to implement.It doesn't recommend a nationwide ban either, yet it performs recommend restricting abortion access.Trump has distanced himself from the record, pointing out: "I recognize nothing at all about Venture 2025. I have no concept who lags it." A lot of previous Trump management officials are connected with Job 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful inflation our team've ever before possessed" [was under Biden] DECISION: This is incorrect. Under Head of state Biden, inflation reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, each time when rates were actually climbing sharply in numerous nations. Inflation was actually final over 9% in 1981, yet it has been considerably greater than that at a number of various other points in US history.Since its top in mid-2022, inflation has 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 lots of voters.Would Trump tariffs cost households $4,000? CLAIM: Harris: "Economists have pointed out that that Trump sales income tax would actually result for center lesson households in around $4,000 even more a year". VERDICT: Harris refers to as Trump's suggested tax on bring ins a sales tax. Some economic experts have predicted that these tolls might set you back family members this a lot. Others possess lower price quotes. Trump asserts the expense will be thought by international countries but financial experts think there will be an economic price for United States importers as well as consumers. The $4,000 figure originates from review - due to the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Development - 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 volume the US acquires in goods coming from abroad each year, identified how much the new income taxes on these goods will be as well as split this by the lot of households in the US.It exercises at $4,600 per house, yet when you examine "middle income" households you receive a figure of $3,900 a year.Other price quotes are reduced. The Peterson Principle assumes the effect would be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is unlawful act down in Venezuela due to the fact that it is actually sending out bad guys to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Offense in Venezuela ... is way down due to the fact that they have taken their crooks off the roads and given them to her [Harris] to embed our nation". DECISION: There is actually no evidence that Venezuela is actually doing this. Criminal activity degrees are actually down however pros say this is due to the state of the economic climate. The Venezuelan government carries out not publish dependable crime bodies, but the individual Venezuelan Observatory of Physical violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly document claimed that intense fatalities that year - such as homicides - were actually down by a fourth reviewed to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Crime is actually decreased in Venezuela by a decrease in crime chances: banking company break-ins go away because there is actually no money to swipe kidnappings are lessened because there is no money to pay out ransoms." It mentioned it had viewed no documentation that the Venezuelan federal government was sending out wrongdoers to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.