The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that Meng Wanzhou says her legal troubles with the United States began as far back as 2014 during a flight into New York when she was detained for a visa-related stop similar to the one at Vancouver's airport last December allegedly engineered in partnership with the FBI. The Globe's Mike Hager and Xiao Xu write that Ms. Meng's high-powered legal team allege in new court filings that the search of her electronics there and the recent detentions of other Huawei higher-ups in other U.S. airports show a pattern of the American government's "historical abuse of customs and immigration powers" that are similar to the alleged misconduct of the Canadian authorities. Ms. Meng was arrested as she connected through Vancouver airport on a U.S. warrant, which is alleging in an extradition case set to go to trial next January that the Huawei chief financial officer lied about the company's activities in Iran and placed banks at risk of violating U.S. economic sanctions. The globe-trotting executive was detained by U.S. customs officials in early 2014 at New York's John F. Kennedy airport and had her electronic devices temporarily seized, according to the memorandum released Tuesday.