A great read on how an immigrant is vastly different from a refugee Posted on February 13, 2017 by Charlie Worth the read, and the video… “An immigrant is somebody who has made a decision of the will to choose America. Immigrants want to come to this country because they believe in America, they want the kind of life America makes possible,” D’Souza continued. “A refugee is someone who just wants to get away from some problem. a civil war a famine, something that is going on in his or her own country.” “The difference can be summarized as an immigrant wants to come here. The refugee simply wants to get out of there.”