Barack Obama actually said...

"Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States."

"I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens who meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this order would be detrimental to the intere..."

"The order blocks the property and interests in property, and suspends entry into the United States, of persons listed in the Annex to the order."

"I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to take such actions... as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the order."