The Surprising Renee Good Receipt
A little-noticed DHS post made “100 million deportations” feel less rhetorical
In researching the Renee Good shooting for the new Receipt Roundup Series, I looked through social media posts by DHS before the surge. Shortly before they announced the Minnesota operation was a surprise—an official post stating “100 Million Deportations.” If you hadn’t heard about that post, you’re far from alone. It only received significant attention over the controversial usage of the artist’s painting without permission. It may help understand the environment in which Renee Good died.
An official post about removing almost thirty percent of the United States population would be something by itself, but that wasn’t the first time I’d seen that number. It was, however, first time seeing it from an official United States government source. I saw the same number was from Tarrant County Republican Chairman Bo French early last summer. Back then, I looked into the numbers and what it’d mean for Fort Worth and Tarrant County beyond what he’d posted—all immigrants since 1965, their children, and their grandchildren.
Grasping Deportation Targets
Besides the Department of Homeland Security’s 100M figure, we have the following projected targets to draw from:
7,800: The number of particularly dangerous Special Interest Aliens estimated by the Republican-led House in 2024 to have infiltrated the United States;
1.7 Million: The estimated number of immigrant “gotaways” deemed potential threats by the Republican led-house in 2024;
2 Million: The estimated number of people in local, state, or federal jails or prisons in the United States as of 2023 (for mathematical comparison only).
14 Million: The largest credible figure for people in the United States with some significant immigration status issue as of 2023;
21 Million: President Trump’s minimum deportation goal by the end of the 2024 Presidential Campaign;
50 Million: The number that a former conservative now Christian Nationalist west Texas leader was adamantly and publicly advocating when our friendship ended in 2025. It translates roughly to the number of foreign born people present in the United States including mostly legal immigrants and citizens; and
Sixty-five Million: The number referenced by occasional Trump advisor Laura Loomer which is approximately the Hispanic population of the United States.
I think large numbers get thrown out so often that they become hard to understand in practical terms. Broken down locally in simple form, the DHS number is over 650,000 people out of Tarrant County’s 2.3M—or over four times the capacity of Texas Motor Speedway on race day, while 21M locally would be near a sell-out.1 Lost in all of this is that every figure listed includes legal immigrants and the 100M figure is overwhelmingly comprised of United States citizens.
What Does it Mean
In terms of realistic goals, removing roughly 30% of the United States’ population through removal or otherwise would take over 90 years at the reported ICE quota of 3,000 per day. It also would be quite a historic first in terms of prior campaigns in world history that targeted massive populations. Leaving aside both the morality and the logistics,2 let’s focus on the issue that led me to the DHS subject: the untimely death of Renee Good.
If you are wondering why a Minnesota woman would monitor or peacefully oppose ICE activity near her home, consider that she may have taken the government’s stated number seriously—especially when it sent 2,000 well-armed, masked men to her area. Applied to Minneapolis, the DHS 100M post scales to approximately 125,000 people in her city, and the vast majority would be citizens. It’s hard to imagine that anyone in Minneapolis would be left personally untouched.
In hearing people defend ICE on the specifics of her death, there seems to be a belief that it’s madness to peacefully document and defend your neighbors. In a country founded on a belief that rights are God-given and an ethos of “Liberty or Death,” being upset by peaceful opposition seems more radical than believing in Liberty enough to take peaceful action.
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“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”
— Abba Antony (Saint Anthony the Great), Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
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The number would most likely be higher than 130,000 in Tarrant County due to demographics.
The tasks of writing about such a large number of humans being targeted for removal from our country is monumental no matter what level of abstraction you choose. Every flashpoint term in our language seems to apply. The logistics of it is cold to talk about, but also mind-boggling in both the human tragedy and the sheer task of it. I’m not aware of any other successful campaign of this size in history.