abc 7 news lesley brinkley has the full story. >>> facebook video of the transfer student part of a campaign now to get him released from custody. he and his girlfriend were driving back from a party on december 30th when they made a wrong turn and ran into a temporary immigration check point set up in jamul, east of san diego. >> louise was honest, told them i am not an american citizen, from ecuador. they took him in. >> reporter: mora came to the u.s. as an 11-year-old, his visa expired, now a political science major at cal. >> the department of homeland security has the authority to set up a temporary immigration check point anywhere, anytime within 100 miles of the coastline of border or an airport. in essence, in the majority of california. >> mora's attorney visited him yesterday at the detention facility where he's still in custody. >> for me it broke my heart to see him sitting across the table, and having done nothing wrong whatsoever. he's not a flight risk, not a security threat, not a criminal. so there's no reason to hold him on taxpayer money. >> uc berkeley released a stateme