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Brazil has deployed its National Public Security Force for 180 days to support Funai in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory in Pará, after more than 500 people invaded it. Mongabay reported that the invasion took place two months before its story, in a territory where the isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava people live. A Ministry of Justice and Public Security spokesperson told Mongabay that troops are already in the region. The force is meant to support Funai, which keeps up monitoring and protection work and will provide logistics, while the force does not set territorial protection priorities. Funai said it could not disclose deployment schedules or field tactics for strategic and safety reasons. A federal court ordered a security team deployed within 48 hours on August 26, but the federal government signed the authorization on October 29, and it was published in the official gazette on November 3. The government said an earlier deployment had expired in July without renewal and that a new one needed authorization from Pará's government, which had not cooperated. Separately, a new state law passed in August created the Bacajaí Environmental Protection Area, which would allow private landowners to build homes and raise livestock. The federal government says that law is invalid because the area overlaps federally protected Indigenous land. Invaders smashed security gates, tore down warning signs and set up camps. Mongabay's October investigation said the law helped encourage the invasion and that a coordinated social media campaign involving politicians and agribusiness figures helped push it. It also reported fire alerts rising from zero in August to 23 by October 13.