For example, why were both the members of Osama bin Laden's family and the close to 70 Israeli spies arrested in the wake of the attacks quietly gotten out of the country I believe I may help you with this one. You see, in the USA there is a set of rules agreeded upon, call the laws, and among them them there is one very important law, called the Constitution. The Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendment to this Constitution stipulate that "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."; additionaly the Eighth Amendment, part of the U.S. Bill of Rights, prohibits excessive bail or fines. In this concrete case it means that the persons in question, even though they were somebody's kinsmen or belonged to a particular ethnic group, could not be kept imprisoned, unless concrete charges were brought against them. Since according to the US law, being a related to a known criminal or being a member of a particular ethnic group does not constitute a crime in itself, they had to be released. Otherwise it would violate the above mentioned Amendments of the Constitution. As far as I know - not being an American I can be mistaken, of course - that there are no regulations stipulating the amount of noise which should accompany given person, when he or she leaves the country. Therefore they were absolutely free to get out quietly.
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I believe I may help you with this one.
You see, in the USA there is a set of rules agreeded upon, call the laws, and among them them there is one very important law, called the Constitution. The Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendment to this Constitution stipulate that "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."; additionaly the Eighth Amendment, part of the U.S. Bill of Rights, prohibits excessive bail or fines.
In this concrete case it means that the persons in question, even though they were somebody's kinsmen or belonged to a particular ethnic group, could not be kept imprisoned, unless concrete charges were brought against them. Since according to the US law, being a related to a known criminal or being a member of a particular ethnic group does not constitute a crime in itself, they had to be released. Otherwise it would violate the above mentioned Amendments of the Constitution.
As far as I know - not being an American I can be mistaken, of course - that there are no regulations stipulating the amount of noise which should accompany given person, when he or she leaves the country. Therefore they were absolutely free to get out quietly.