Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua on ICE, Karen Bass and her run for another term

Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua sat down with Juice Unlocked for a full-length interview, and nothing was off limits. The conversation covered her childhood, where she wants to take the city, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, ICE and her run for another term.

We previewed the sit-down on Instagram on Sept. 10 with a short teaser filmed in our studio. The full interview went up on the Juice Unlocked YouTube channel on Sept. 14.

What's in the full interview

The YouTube upload, titled "Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua Speaks Out on Karen Bass, ICE, Homelessness, Public Safety & More!", runs about an hour and 14 minutes. Along with immigration enforcement and the mayor of LA, it gets into homelessness and public safety.

The Instagram teaser itself is a quick, lighthearted clip. It shows the mayor and our host in the studio, but none of the policy talk.

Who is Valerie Amezcua

Amezcua was elected mayor of Santa Ana, Orange County's county seat, in November 2022. Before that she served on the Santa Ana Unified School District Board. She won a four-way race that year with about 38% of the vote, ahead of Jose Solorio, Sal Tinajero and Jesse Nestor.

Santa Ana elects its mayor every two years. Amezcua won a second term in 2024 and was on the ballot again this fall, the "run for another term" the interview covers.

The election

Santa Ana's mayoral race was on the Nov. 3, 2026, general election ballot. Check the OC Registrar of Voters at ocvote.gov for the official count before treating any early numbers as final.

What’s next

The full interview is on the Juice Unlocked YouTube channel. Santa Ana's mayoral race was on the Nov. 3, 2026, ballot, and official results come from the OC Registrar of Voters at ocvote.gov.

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Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua Speaks Out on Karen Bass, ICE, Homelessness, Public Safety & More!

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