The Trump administration has brought its first foreign terrorism suspect to the United States to face charges, a break from its position that suspects be sent to the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The New York Times reported Friday that the suspect, Ali Charaf Damache, was transferred from Spain and was scheduled to appear in court Friday in Philadelphia.

Damache is suspected of being a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and was charged by the Justice Department with helping plot the murder of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted Prophet Muhammad in cartoons.

Damache was charged alongside Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a Pakistani citizen and U.S. lawful permanent resident living in Maryland with "conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists." Khalid was arrested in Ellicott City, Md., on July 6 according to the Justice Department.

Damache is also charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and one count of attempted identity theft to facilitate an act of international terrorism, according to officials. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison.

Khalid, who faces one charge of conspiracy to provide material support, faces up to 15 years in prison.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE has made comments as recently as March that the military prison at Guantanamo Bay should be used to house all terrorism suspects, arguing against the notion that they should be brought to U.S. soil for trial.

“In general, I don’t think we’re better off bringing these people to federal court in New York and trying them in federal court where they get discovery rights to find out our intelligence, and get court-appointed lawyers and things of that nature," Sessions said in March.

Sessions and Trump have both spoken in favor of keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open, and using it to house terrorism suspects. In March, Sessions said the military prison was the "perfect place" for these suspects.

“There’s plenty of space,” he said. “We are well equipped for it. It’s a perfect place for it. Eventually, this will be decided by the military rather than the Justice Department. But I see no legal problem whatsoever with doing that.”