200,000 a year is a lot. Why do the other parties find it so unreasonable?
Strictly speaking, any upper limit on asylum seekers is in violation of the German constitution.
(So, if they were such an upper limit, the Constitutional Court could strike it down.)
Strictly speaking granting asylum to anyone that entered Germany via Austria is in violation of the German constitution. No one seems to give a crap about it though.
No. Strictly speaking, that's not a violation of the constitution.
Article 16a (2) of the Basic Law merely states that a person who enters the country from another EU member state is not
entitled to the right of asylum. However, it doesn't explicitly
forbid the government from granting him or her asylum anyway. It merely means that it's the government's prerogative to decide in that case.
Of course, the only way to clear that up once and for all would be a ruling by the Constitutional Court. It's curious though that despite the fact that AfD politicians may argue that the government is in in fact violation of Article 16a (2) they never bothered to file a complaint with the Constitutional Court on the matter. That's because the Court would most likely rule against them IMO, which in turns means that Merkel's opponents would lose one of their major talking points.