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I always thought it was to do with "im" as a prefix meaning "inward" (implant/implicate) and "ex" as a prefix meaning "outward" (excavate/exclude/exit). So a person who comes to your country is an immigrant and a person who goes from your country to somewhere else is an expat.
But maybe I'm just reinterpreting a bit of passive racism in a nicer way