Why was new mexico was an ideal site for pow internment camps? a. the new mexican government requested the internment camps because new mexico needed farm workers. b. new mexico had tough terrain, it was inexpensive to keep prisoners, and the camps were away from major population centers. c. the people of new mexico petitioned for the camps to bring federal money onto the state. d. new mexico needed labor to revitalize the civilian conservation corps (ccc) camps.

The answer would be B

B. New Mexico had tough terrain, it was inexpensive to keep prisoners, and the camps were away from major population centers.

Explanation:

A prisoner of war camp is a place of contention for people captured by the enemy in time of war. A prisoner of war is usually a soldier, sailor or aviator imprisoned by an enemy force during or immediately after an armed conflict. Non-combatant enemy personnel are also considered, such as merchant marines and civil aircrews captured by the enemy as prisoners of war. The main function of the prison camp is to obtain valuable information, documents or others in order to gather enemy information to be able to use it in favor of the forces themselves. Imprisonment is the incarceration or confinement of persons, usually in large groups, without trial.The term is used especially for the confinement of "enemy citizens in time of war or suspected terrorists". Therefore, while it may simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement, rather than confinement after being convicted of a crime. The use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. Inmates may be held in prisons or facilities known as internment camps. In certain contexts, these can also be known officially or pejoratively, as concentration camps.