Republican statewide candidates Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman have both rejected calls by conservatives to reconsider the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to every child born on American soil.

Both candidates have been campaigning vigorously to pick up California’s critical Latino vote.

In recent weeks, conservative lawmakers in Washington, D.C., like Sen. Lindsey Graham and House minority leader John Boehner have questioned the citizenship-by-birthright policy granted by the amendment in arguments specifically pointed at the nation’s undocumented Latino population.

“In certain parts of our country, clearly, our schools, our hospitals are being overrun by illegal immigrants, a lot of whom came here just so their children could become U.S. citizens,” Boehner said on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC.

Fiorina touched down Thursday night in Los Angeles at the convention for the California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where she told reporters that the 14th Amendment debate was an “emotional distraction” from comprehensive immigration reform.

Whitman, who has been dogged by accusations that she has not taken a firm position on immigration while she attempts to pick up both Latino and conservative votes in California, followed with comments to the press saying she “opposes a change in the U.S. Constitution.”

Fiorina is leading incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer by 5 points, according to a latest Survey USA poll released Thursday.

The same polling firm had Fiorina up by two points last month.

Boxer has help coming: AFL-CIO leader Robert Trumka will lead a rally at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday while President Obama, a huge fundraising pull in California, is also set to swing by southern California on Monday to Hoover up dollars for Democrats.