The Lansing City Council is expected to reconsider the city's stance on immigration Wednesday evening, just over a week after council members designated the state capital as a sanctuary city.

A special meeting has been called for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday that lists two items for consideration: rescinding the resolution that declared Lansing a sanctuary city and reaffirming Lansing's status as a "Welcoming City" for immigrants.

The sanctuary city designation made official last week was a surprising, but welcome turn of events for many activists, as the addition of the sanctuary city designation was approved through an amendment from council member Jessica Yorko just prior to the final vote.

But city officials have taken heat for the resolution at both the local and national level, and two council members, Jody Washington and Adam Hussain, were not present at the April 3 meeting to vote on the sanctuary city language.

In a letter to city officials sent last week, Michigan Chamber of Commerce CEO Rich Studley and Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce CEO Tim Daman asked the council to remove the reference to making Lansing a sanctuary city.

"Recent actions of City Council, whether intended or not, have placed an unnecessary target on the City of Lansing while jeopardizing millions of dollars in federal funding that impacts the city budget," the letter read.

"While the focus should be leadership on issues such as the city's unfunded liabilities, roads and infrastructure, regional cooperation and making Lansing more competitive, City Council has chosen to bring a federal matter to local politics," the letter continued.

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, who issued an executive order on law enforcement's handling of immigration status just prior to the council's vote on the matter, went on Fox News last week to defend his policy. Bernero said he discussed the language extensively with the city attorney and police chief and feels confident the executive order -- which did not designate Lansing as a sanctuary city -- complies with federal law.

Tucker Carlson was critical of the city's new policy, asking whether city officials were making a "fashionable moral statement" and demanding evidence that local disengagement with immigration policies make communities safer.

The council's resolution defined Lansing as a sanctuary city based on Bernero's executive order, which includes a provision preventing Lansing police officers and city employees from asking about immigration status "except as required by federal or state statute or court decision."