According to CNN, more than 25 mostly Republican guvs have hung “Syrians not welcome” signs on their doors, citing the threat of terrorism. On Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton dismissed the claims as grandstanding and ripped his fellow governors.

“I think it’s showmanship on the part of these governors who pretend that they would be able to sanctify their borders so that only certain people can enter their state and other people can’t,” Dayton said. “I want to protect the people of Minnesota every bit as much as those governors want to be able to protect the people of their states. But to stand up there with swagger and say ‘Well, I’m going to prevent the wrong people from entering my state’ to me is just ludicrous.”

Not surprisingly, Dayton broke with Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, who was among those warning of nefarious Syrians flooding out of their war torn country to, you know, escape terrorism. At the crux of Walker's ire is the Obama Administration’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in America. An estimated 4 million-and-counting have already left the embattled nation, overwhelming Europe and the Middle East.

“These people have children in their arms, they’re fleeing terrorists in their respective countries like Syria,” Dayton said. “And they’re not a threat to anyone.”

On Monday, Walker cautioned that “we must ensure we are doing all we can to safeguard the security of Americans.”

Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) urged Dayton to take a similarly defiant stance. The speaker wrote a letter telling Dayton to tell Obama that he should chill on the resettlement plan until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reviews its security procedures.

Daudt was unavailable for an interview Tuesday. But since immigration is handled at the federal level, states don’t have the authority to refuse entry to legal immigrants anyway.

Since 2009, less than 10 Syrian nationals have settled in Minnesota, Dayton said. Plus, as immigration whiz Mike Huckabee astutely noted this week on Fox News Radio it might be too chilly for ‘em here. (Do they even have North Face stores in Syria?)

“Can you imagine bringing in a bunch of Syrian refugees who’ve lived in the desert their whole lives that are suddenly thrown into an English speaking community? Where it’s maybe in Minnesota where it is 20 degrees below zero? I mean just I don’t understand what we possibly can be thinking.”

Then again, frostbite is probably way less scary than recurring bomb blasts.