Very decent indeed. This is about the most common sense proposal I have heard from any politician EVER. This would be nation building at its best and real and beneficial “reparations”.
The tiny land area of Haiti simply can not support 9 million whether they are industrious or “come yet” welfare slackers.
The Dominican Replublic east end of the island has done much better than Haiti. I’d say let the west end of the island go to the Dominicans and let them decide how many stay and how many relocate back to Africa.
Very doubtful anything along these lines will actually happen, the big politicians (here and there, like klintoon and Jesse Jackson) make too many billions scamming the shiploads of money we send to Haiti.
The DR would just as soon deport all of them. They have had problems over the decades with controlling how many of them cross the border to work in the DR. While some can blend in an assimilate, the others have proven a tremendous stress on an island economy that can't take big hits.
Having read a couple books on the history of Haiti, ceding control over to Dominican Republic would be a very bad idea. Google Dominican War of Independence 1844
Different people, cultures and ancestries.
Taiwan has twice the population density yet has a per capita income ten times greater than Haiti. I won't compare the even smaller, more densely populated, wealthy city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore. It not land, natural resources or climate -- it's people and culture that make wealth.