Nearly 70,000 South Africans have shown interest in relocating to the United States following Washington’s initiative to resettle members of the country’s Afrikaner community.

The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (Saccusa) reported that its website was inundated with registrations from individuals seeking more details about the program, which came after a February executive order where US President Donald Trump stated that Afrikaners—descendants of predominantly Dutch settlers from the 17th Century—qualified for refugee status as they were “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”

The South Africa Chamber of Commerce president, Neil Diamond, said 67,042 individuals registered, between the ages of 25 and 45 and had two to three dependents, with the majority bearing Afrikaner or English surnames.

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